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[title] => Let us salute those who wrote the poetry of revolution
[time] => 2011-12-25 22:36:00
[hometext] => This poem is a tribute to all those who martyred for freedom ,truth, and dignity
[bodytext] => Poetry becomes a weapon Against the tyrants and imperialists In Tunisia, Egypt and Syria Yemen, Bahrain and Russia For those who raised the flag of independence! Who composed the music of revolution! In a different note Against injustice Against exploitation Against those who boast-truth will die It says-truth will always remain alive For dignity Who dreamt of the spring of hope! Welcome to that intoxicating spring I salute We salute Let’s salute those Who martyred for truth! Salute the Zanj Rebellion A series of small revolts 500,000 slaves Led by Ali Ibn Muhamad and shook the mighty, despotic, and debauch empires from Iran to Iraq in the ninth century 1579 Salute Gaspar Yanga The slave brought from Gabon, Africa The son of a king of Bara Led the slave rebellion in Mexico Alongwith his slave friends Against the Spaniards Defeated them Established the independent town of the slaves Hundred salutes to Yanga 1712 The inhuman torture of enslaved Africans Kept under abusive and harsh conditions, Angered 23 slaves They came forward, showed courage Attacked and killed nine whites by showering bullets The criminal white colonists Hired mercenaries caught seventy blacks threw 21 rebels on fire-alive ! like poultry on barbecue Executed one on breaking wheel It was the first slave rebellion Salute to those 21 burnt alive 1757 East India Company unleashed a reign of terror Barbaric inhuman rule Fakers and Sanyasis (ascetics) couldn’t tolerate it They defied Took arms All ascetics- Dushnami Nagas, Madari Sufis Hindu, Muslims all united started the early war for India's independence from foreign rule around Murshidabad and Baikunthupur forests of Jalpaiguri. 150 fakirs were killed Salute to the Sanyasi- Fakir revolt Salute to Majnu Shah, Bhabani Pathak, Debi Chaudhurani 1798 Midnapore, Bankura, Jangalmahal The forest land The forest dwellers Adivasis-tribals Raised their bows and arrows against the feudal landlords and British colonialists who insultingly called them chuars-the mouse-eaters And called their revolt-chuar rebellion The Adivasis were brutally killed Their leader Durjan Singh was murdered Salute to them 1784 Johar Salute Baba Tilka Manjhi! The first freedom fighter of India The first warrior against the colonialists Who launched full scale war-the first war And wrote the first poem of independence By bow and arrows He was killed and hanged in a tree Salute to him Whom we have easily forgotten 1787 Salute to the Shays’ rebellion Which gave nightmare to the robber barons Living leisurely in the rich-dwellings of Massachusetts 1000 Shaysites arrested Five killed Rebellion crushed But it erupted again as people’s anger In 2011 Against the filthy rich area of New York Reincarnated as Occupy Wall Street movement 1806-1816 The revolutionary flames Engulfed the sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Midnapore It kept on burning for ten years The enemies of people killed those valiants Achal Sinha and his 200 fellow martyrs Salute to all of them! 1858 Johar! Salute!! Veer Narayan Singh Binjhwar It was 1856 A great famine swept the forest region of Chhatisgarh People starved to death Landlords and merchants of Sonakhan Stocked in their godowns foodgrain usurped from the poor He looted their warehouses Distributed the food grain among the poor The feudal and colonialists conspired Arrested him And publicly hanged him 1862 Johar U Kiang Nongbah After income tax in addition to the house-tax. Tax was going to be imposed on betel and betel-nut. Jaintias rose again in a fierce rebellion The leader, guiding spirit was U Kiang Nongbah a young man, He said: Ka Jinglaitluid ka long ka kyndon ba donkam tam ha ka jingim U briew bad ka Ri kaba khlem ka jinglaitluid ym lah tang ban ong ba ka long kaba im (Freedom is the most important factor of a Human's life And a country without freedom cannot be claimed to even be alive") Hundreds of Jaintias were killed U Kiang Nongbah was betrayed, captured and put to the gallows publicly From the scaffold he announced prophetically- "If my face turns east when I die on the rope, we shall be free again within hundred years, If it turns west we shall be enslaved forever " How true was his prophesy! India became free within a hundred years! 1885 Johar Four Murmu brothers Of an insignificant village- Bhagnadih, Dumka All revolutionaries- Siddhu, Kanhu, Chand , Bhairav British colonists ,money lenders, zamindars Usurped their land Disgraced their women Turned the innocent Santals into slaves Cheated and insulted Santals Led by Siddhu, Kanhu, Chand , Bhairav started Sonthal rebellion It swept across the Santhal country Giving nightmare to those criminals destroyed all semblance of British rule Those criminals cheatingly Killed Siddhu, Kanhu, Chand, Bhairav Killed 10,000 Santals Crushed the rebellion- The Hul-revolution …but the legend of the Santal Rebellion lives on 1871 Four Arab slavers with guns entered the market in Nyangwe, Congo 1500 people were gathered, most of them women. Fired shot after shot on the terrified fugitives Six hundred innocent killed Salute to those who were killed! 1900 The volcano of revolution erupted flowing lava Birsa Munda –Dharti Aba (father of the earth) Launched the Munda rebellion-ulgulaan Torching the dikkus(outsiders) Police stations and churches Raided the property of moneylenders and zamindars. Raised the white flag - The symbol of Birsa Raj The colonial government was shaken Munda warriors assembled at Dumbari Hills The British attacked them Slaughtered them Thousands of freedom fighters were killed Dumabri became Topped Buru-mound of dead Birsa Munda was captured Killed in Jail He was only 25 He was killed But ulgulaan– The revolution -continues Long live ulgulaan Long live Birsa Munda-Dharti Aba 1921 Revolution spread on the streets of Istanbul Revolutionary cadre roamed Mustafa Suphi was their leader The paid agents of the dictator Killed him by dagger And thrown his corpse in the Black Sea Black Sea became red Salam to Mustafa Suphi Marhabaa! Salute! 22 January 1905 Zdravstvujte Salute To the simple soul priest George Gapon who was moved to see the sad plight of workers of Putilov plant It was Czar’s Russia Cruel, despot, tyrant, oppressor Bloody Nicholas II was reigning He issued the diktat- Workers would work for hours twelve On Saturdays ten He raised the price of everything Reduced the wages of the workers Gapon was an innocent man Thought he-Czar doesn’t know this This is the work of his subordinates Father Gapon organized the workers Thousands of workers Marched towards The Czar’s winter palace To give a petition Showering bullets welcomed them Killing one thousand of them The workers were silenced The movement failed But it fuelled Gave birth To that revolution That wrecked the vicious monarchy of the world 25 October 1907 The revolution The biggest one of the 29th century Of workers and peasants The October revolution Led by Lenin and Stalin Red salute to that revolution In the poetry of revolution new pages were added Red pages Russia, China, half of Europe Cuba, Vietnam, Laos All became red Salute to all of them!! 1923 The splinter of freedom Became a raging forest fire in Andhra Pradesh Salute to Aluri Sitarama Raju of Chintapalli Salute to Rampa rebellion 1950 Selamat siang Salute to Sudisman Great mobiliser created Twenty million defeated persons into Revolutionary-a dynamic force In Indonesia But the revolution failed Thousands of comrades were massacred Sudisman was sent to gallows 1952 From the jungles of Kenya came the slogan Mzungu Aende Ulaya, Mwafrika Apate Uhuru Let the European go back to Europe (Abroad), Let the African regain Independence. Children, old all thundered- Uma Uma get out, get out -expression of unrestrained emotion nationalist response to the unfairness and oppression freedom fighters ,the ‘Mau Mau' vowed to free Kenya from colonialism.... the Mau Mau Uprising Habari! Salute to the Kapenguria Six – Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and Achieng' Oneko ! 17 January 1961 Salute to Patrice Lumumba The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo Who fought for African identity. Said he: For a thousand years, you, African, suffered like beast, Your ashes strewn to the wind that roams the desert. Your tyrants built the lustrous, magic temples To preserve your soul, reserve your suffering. Barbaric right of fist and the white right to a whip, You had the right to die, you also could weep. The criminal colonial Belgium Robbers of the precious copper, gold and uranium of Congo Conspired with the champion of democracy -the superpower- US of A Lumumba was arrested, beaten and tortured Was lined up against a large tree Then fired And killed him His body was hacked into pieces Then dissolved into acid filled drum Shame to those criminals Who still preach and sing peons of democracy 11 September 11, 1973 In the Chile Stadium While he was tortured His fingers were being cut He wrote the last poem of his life Which remained unfinished By the oozing blood of his fingers -the swan song Amidst bullet hurled on him He wrote- How hard it is to sing when I must sing of horror. Silence and screams is the end of my song Salute to the great soul Victor Jara 17 December 2010 There was a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, in small town Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, He gave free fruit and vegetables to very poor families Affectionately he was called Basboosa-the sweet halwa He himself was poor Running a family of six siblings He didn't have a licence. Police wanted bribe Municipal staff wanted bribe Confiscated his wares Fed up with the harassment and humiliation he procured a can of gasoline standing in the middle of traffic, He shouted "how do you expect me to make a living?” He immolated himself alight with a match He died 5,000 people participated in the funeral procession the angry crowd chanted "Farewell, Mohammed, we will avenge you. we weep for you today. we will make those who caused your death weep Thawrat al-Karāmah- Dignity Revolution started Ultimately called Jasmine Revolution Jasmine-the national flower of Tunisia Dethroning the dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Mohamed Bouazizi wa 'alaykum is salām! 17 June 2011 Salam - Yacoub Dahoud of Mauritania who dared to set fire himself in Nouakchott Just in front of the President Palace he burnt himself for a better Mauritania where all people will enjoy justice and revolution descended in the Arab world in Egypt Salam Asmaa Mahfouz in Syria Salam Razan Zaitouna, In Yemen Salam Tawakkul Karman And so on… The fire of revolution never subsides It cannot be subsided It may remain dormant for a while Yet it will be burning inside Its only companion is poetry Poetry never bends It always remains And burns Sending flames with the revolution In the frontline It still continues the epic of revolution still unfinished no one knows when it will be completed Till then several new names would be added in the new blood soaked chapters Salute to all of them Salute And salute… [comments] => 2 [counter] => 172 [topic] => 38 [informant] => PankajPrasoon [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Tributes )
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