To All Those……….

To all those who took up guns against an unjust order,

So that guns forever could be dumped into the dustbin of history…

To all those who turned violent against a coercive system,

So that generations of humans to come can live in a violence-free society….

To all those who raised existential questions about the existing order,

And who lost their lives for doing so…

To all those who struggled to shatter the shackles of a sexist system,

And strived to set right the skewed relations between the genders…

To all those minds which transcended the parochial borders of the nation-state,

And sought refuge in the brotherhood of man international…

To all those who refused to be enamoured by ephemeralities like ‘Social status’,

Because of a conviction in the Equality of man, Natural…

To all those who thought further than their biological and social needs,

And gave their all to further the cause of truth and science….

To all those men and women who believed that they had every right as everybody else,

To sing and be as free as the birds in the sky….

To all those in the barracks of Barrackpore, 1857,

Who fired the first shot against colonial oppression….

To all those in that crimson dawn at Leningrad, 1917,

Who raised a voice against human misery and bondage…..

To all those in those verdant paddy fields of Vietnam, 1967,

Who dared to face the naked face of imperialist aggression…

To all those in 10,000 years of recorded history,

Who ensured that all of human evolution was a BIG progress…

To all those boys and girls in their teens and twenties, whose only search in life,

Was the search for a borderless world and a classless society….

To all those countless comrades,

A big salute!