THAT DISTANT DAWN WHEN HEROES WILL BREATHE LIFE AGAIN INTO THIS NATION

THAT DISTANT DAWN WHEN HEROES WILL BREATHE LIFE AGAIN INTO THIS NATION

Though the battle for revolutionary terrorism and armed revolution both were against the mighty odds of British imperialism and bound, perhaps, for immediate failure, yet, they exhibited Indian manhood at its best, a feat which was never even remotely equalled by Gandhian non-violent passive resistance.

History may have done temporary injustice to the martyrs to the motherland's freedom but a day will come when posterity shall honour these heroes in shining testament, in glowing tributes and in a never-ending memory that will remain the perennial fund of patriotic inspiration.

When the real manhood of the nation in future generations awakes, when mass national effeminacy will have given way to virile affirmation of the national imperatives of strength, then will spring the memory of the martyrs like the Phoenix from the ashes and relegate the cowardice of compromised Gandhian moderation to the junkyard of history for a fresher fabrication unto future reassessment of the forces for freedom. Not that it will result in a radical rewriting of history that will be unjust in its assessment of the non-violent struggle but that out of the junkyard shall be drawn the bare substance of the movement to provide its skeletal spirit and sense devoid of fanciful impositions in hyper-achievement that was never the historical case.

The valour of the polity once quickened, history will take its due course and assign each one his due place in its pantheon. The martyrs from the scaffold will breathe again and the dead heroes from the battlefront of Burma and Imphal will come back to life and reshape the destiny of their beloved motherland, mutilated and dismembered beyond recognition. The heroes will be reborn to rescue this nation from cowards and coarse commoners who are party to this compromise with the nation's fortunes.

Unto that glorious arrival must we dedicate ourselves heart and soul, for upon our labour of love shall depend the coming of this new dawn of national reawakening. Till then let us learn about the revolutionaries and rewrite our history of the freedom movement.

Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !

Written by Sugata Bose