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Indian Freedom Fighter

In India, Gandhi, Nehru, Bhagat Singh and a host of other leaders, many of them communists, have attained great status in people’s hearts. Not one among those whom the Indian people have revered does one find a communalist, a religious fanatic. This has been the frustration of right wingers for the last three quarters of a century.

Despite claiming to be the truly and only nationalists in the entire political spectrum the Indian rightist are unable to produce a single name that is recognizably and acceptably of a national leader or freedom fighter. By turns they have tried to appropriate Bhagat Singh, Tagore, even Ambedkar, and approvingly eulogized some aspects of thoughts or actions of Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sardar Patel, Malviya and so on, but they never had… Click here to read more