One of my friends had suggested this song to me along with the context this song is being sung. Apparently this is the modern day vandemataram against the fascist forces that are trying to undermine the democracy. Ever since the JNU students have been attacked, the right wing Hindutwa forces seem to be going nuts. The appalling culmination of the entire issue is an FIR being filed on the victim. Not sure if even British did stoop that low.
Fine! there is nothing much to expect from the government and it's lapdog police system. What surprises me is the hell breaking loose when a Bollywood actress pays a visit to JNU in a move to express solidarity to the victims. Indian central cabinet minister of questionable education qualification madam Smriti Irani had chided Deepika Padukone for her temerity to support the JNU students. I wonder what she is expecting any sane person to do. Support the goons who had perpetrated the violence? How come the people with such depraved minds get to become ministers in India?
What happened to the "heroes" of Bollywood who in our movies go to any length to avenge the victims and right the wrong? Did they simply think whatever has happened is perfectly just or are simply walking around with their heads deep in the sand and their tails tight in between their legs? What about the actors turned politicians? What are these parasites busy with?
Then the politicians started showing off their stupidity. One guy even went on to say that the hum dekhenge is against Hinduism and could hurt the Hindu sentiments. What this idiot did not know is that in 1985, when the PAK dictator Gen Zia-ul-haq banned wearing Sarees in PAK, the singer Iqbal Bano, wearing a black Saree sang this song in the Lahore Stadium (in PAK). And the stadium reverberated with the slogans of 'Inquilaab zindabad' (long live revolution). The compiler of the song (Faiz Ahmad Faiz) himself, through out his life had challenged the Islamic oppression and had spent good amount of time incarcerated under the rule of dictatorship. All of a sudden this song of defiance became anti-Hindu just because if contained one lone reference to Allah. Even Zia-ul-huq could not have dared to say what our skinheads are saying now. What is to be noted here is the way the current regime is dealing with criticism -by attacking the critics.
Fine! there is nothing much to expect from the government and it's lapdog police system. What surprises me is the hell breaking loose when a Bollywood actress pays a visit to JNU in a move to express solidarity to the victims. Indian central cabinet minister of questionable education qualification madam Smriti Irani had chided Deepika Padukone for her temerity to support the JNU students. I wonder what she is expecting any sane person to do. Support the goons who had perpetrated the violence? How come the people with such depraved minds get to become ministers in India?
What happened to the "heroes" of Bollywood who in our movies go to any length to avenge the victims and right the wrong? Did they simply think whatever has happened is perfectly just or are simply walking around with their heads deep in the sand and their tails tight in between their legs? What about the actors turned politicians? What are these parasites busy with?
Then the politicians started showing off their stupidity. One guy even went on to say that the hum dekhenge is against Hinduism and could hurt the Hindu sentiments. What this idiot did not know is that in 1985, when the PAK dictator Gen Zia-ul-haq banned wearing Sarees in PAK, the singer Iqbal Bano, wearing a black Saree sang this song in the Lahore Stadium (in PAK). And the stadium reverberated with the slogans of 'Inquilaab zindabad' (long live revolution). The compiler of the song (Faiz Ahmad Faiz) himself, through out his life had challenged the Islamic oppression and had spent good amount of time incarcerated under the rule of dictatorship. All of a sudden this song of defiance became anti-Hindu just because if contained one lone reference to Allah. Even Zia-ul-huq could not have dared to say what our skinheads are saying now. What is to be noted here is the way the current regime is dealing with criticism -by attacking the critics.
Then as usual. Badmouthing the JNU itself started all over again. The irony is that none of these idiots have ever managed to get a degree from a university (much less a renowned one) and yet these guys decide the fate of a university. Look for example at our swadeshi bahu, whose highest qualification varies each five years in the decreasing order, the one who is adept at answering with emotional rhetoric but rarely uses to facts or logic to defend her position, blaming Deepika from standing support for "those". What does she know about the original motive behind the universities? In what way is she even qualified to hold a position that is above the pay grade of a clerk? And yet here she is once the minister of Education (HRD) and now a minister again.
How many of us are aware that the original motive behind our universities is not educating the people but making the people aware by being able to float an alternative thought and enabling a discussion? Education is supposed to happen while doing so. There is only a few universities that seem not to have been deviated from this motive. And JNU for being one of them is being detracted by people like me who are qualified (but hardly educated) and so earn 6-digit salaries. How many of us know that many of the freedom fighters abhorred the very idea of patriotism itself? They fought the oppression of British and JNU is now fighting the oppression of Indian state -like every university and every humanist should do.
hum bhi dekhenge
We will see, we will inevitably see
The day that has been promised
The times that have been written in the book of destiny
We will see
The mountains of oppression will fly away like wads of cotton
We the innocents will shake the earth
We most clean/gentle will light up the skies
We will see
All these false idols will go away
We the pure and forbidden will enter the fields forbidden by these lords
We will have the throne for ourselves
Everybody else will be dethroned
We will see
Only the god's name remains in the end
Who is both absent and present everywhere
Who is the path and destination
We will proclaim ourselves God and we will be restored to the power
That is you and me
The god of the sky will commence to rule
That is God is you and me
We will see, we will inevitably see
We will see
