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Militarisation Of Bhagat Singh's Revolutionary Heritage | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2023-01-06T23:13:08Z

The following quote is from the first paragraph of Lenin's great work; The State and Revolution:The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (1917) underlining a cardinal truth; how rulers and their henchmen/women repress those ideologies and individuals who strive to emancipate masses from the exploitative rules. This chameleon like lot uses every trick in their criminal armoury.
“What is now happening to Marx's theory has, in the course of history, (…)

- 2023

Leading India To Darkness: Indian President Idolizes Gita Press That Preaches Enslavement Of Hindu Women! | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2022-07-01T21:52:58Z

It is mandatory for every President of India to take the following oath prescribed under Article 49 of the Indian Constitution before occupying the august office:
"I, [Name] do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will faithfully execute the office of President (or discharge the functions of the President) of India and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law and that I will devote myself to the service and well-being of the people (…)

- 2022

Reflections on 103rd Commemoration of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2022-04-22T14:20:06Z

Contemporary documents of the brutal massacre and people's heroic resistance remain hidden in boxes of National Archives
India has turned into a grazing field for all kinds of religious bigots led by the Hindutva gang. Even PM of the country who took oath to uphold democratic-secular polity is identifying himself as a Hindu nationalist as if he is in office to serve the cause of Hindutva. The RSS/BJP rulers are openly declaring their commitment to turn India into a Hindu state where (…)

- 2022

Savarkar as a diehard Casteist: Evidence from Hindutva archives | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2022-04-08T20:44:51Z

The Savarkar rehabilitation project is taking newer forms. The latest attempt [‘How Savarkar fought for a casteless society', The Indian Express, 28-02-2022] by the Savarkarites is to claim that “He had imagined a nation free of malevolent social evils such as caste cruelty, Untouchability, and injustice towards women. He advocated a casteless society based on notions of social justice coupled with social cohesion. He wanted to uproot the diversity of the caste system and build a nation (…)

- 2022

Dear PM Modi, Aurangzeb Rule Was Also the Rule of Hindu High Castes! | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2021-12-28T19:05:04Z

Narendra Modi, a senior swayamsevak (member) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, long back in 2013 when he occupied the office of chief minister of Gujarat, declared himself to be a ‘Hindu nationalist'. As the PM of the largest democratic-secular polity in the world; India, he misses no opportunity to stress the favourite Hindutva binary of putting Hindus and Muslims as two communities at war in the country. He resorted to this favourite polarizing theme of his while speaking at the (…)

- 2022

Failure to Keep Record About Our Past - Looking back at India's 1857 Revolt Against the British on its 164th anniversary | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2021-05-14T14:54:54Z

Criminal betrayal of the martyrs of India's First War of Independence 1857 by the Indian rulers.
Now it is almost 170 years that people of this country; men, women, children belonging to all religions, regions and strata rose in revolt from Kashmir to Madras and Sylhet to the borders of Afghanistan. Today, if Indians have forgotten about this glorious saga of commitment and sacrifices for the liberation of India, can be forgiven in absence of the contemporary narratives. But what (…)

- 2021

A Peep Into ‘Hindu' Narratives of Bengal History! | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2021-04-30T22:21:11Z

The whole thrust of the RSS-BJP election campaign for 2021 state assembly elections in Bengal has been to save Bengal from the rule of Mamata Bannerjee who is not a ‘Hindu'.
PM of India, Narendra Bhai Modi, a self-proclaimed Hindu nationalist, as usual set the polarizing agenda. While addressing the first election rally, he called upon the electorate to overthrow the ‘nirmam' (cruel) rule of Mamata by showing a ‘Ram Card'. He did not name Hindus directly but there was no confusion about (…)

- 2021

RSS-BJP Rulers Glorify Golwalkar, a Die-hard Casteist, Male Chauvinist, Denigrator of Secular-Democratic Indian Polity & Admirer of Nazism | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2021-02-27T07:23:36Z

First time in the history of independent India, in-charge minister of the Cultural Ministry in the current Modi government, Prahlad Singh Patel has shocked the nation by glorifying MS Golwalkar, the 2nd Supremo of the RSS and the most prominent ideologue of the RSS till date, on his birth anniversary, February 19. In a tweet he wrote:
“Remembering a great thinker, scholar, and remarkable leader #MSGolwalkar on his birth anniversary. His thoughts will remain a source of inspiration & (…)

- 2021

131st Birth anniversary of Frontier Gandhi - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan — Who?

Shamsul Islam — 2021-02-06T16:28:13Z

February 6 is the 131st birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan also popularly known as Frontier Gandhi and Badshah Khan. He was a prominent Indian freedom fighter, a die-hard opponent of the two-nation theory and the idea of Pakistan. He was totally committed to Gandhi's idea of non-violence, enjoyed the same stature in the NWFP also known as Frontier as Gandhi had in India. He opposed with full conviction the inclusion of NWFP in Pakistan but failed. After the formation of Pakistan (…)

- 2021

Kakori Conspiracy Case: 93rd Anniversary of the Death Sentencing of Members of Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) | Shamsul Islam

Shamsul Islam — 2020-12-26T12:20:21Z

On August 9, 1925 a group of Indian revolutionaries affiliated to the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) which included Chandershekhar Azad, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, Rajender Lahiri, Roshan Singh, Manmathnath Gupt and others waylaid the British Government treasury loaded on a passenger train at Kakori railway station (approximately 20 kilo meters from Lucknow) and captured the same. The then British rulers and their henchmen branded these revolutionaries as terrorists who (…)

- 2020