Our whole attitude must change. This feeble imitation of the West, this worship of wealth, this debilitated devotion to God out of self-interest, all this must go and in its place must come the vigour of nationalism in the tradition of the great revolutionaries who suffered incarceration in the dreaded Cellular Jail and death at the gallows. Patriotism must be the expression of the nation's spirituality in action and glorification of the extreme sacrifices made, the sufferings endured by the martyrs to the nation's freedom, this must be the cornerstone of our national regeneration in a renewed emphasis in its narrative of the freedom struggle retold to the younger generations. May the spirit of the extreme revolutionaries who were men enough not to compromise like the cowardly Congressmen with the perfidious British inspire us even today unto unravelling the true history of our freedom struggle and thence gain the strength to rebuild our nation along lines of light and wisdom, love and sacrifice along preset lines of the race's evolution !
Written by Sugata Bose
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