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In Nandigram the police was not dealing with killers but with ordinary people demanding the right to hang on to the tiny plot of land that in most cases would have been their only means of livelihood. Even if the protesters turned violent, they could have been controlled without killing them. You do not need a CBI inquiry to establish this. Governments notoriously order inquiries when they want to evade answering questions and that is what this inquiry seems like. But Nandigram throws up issues that are more important.

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On the slogan of 'Long Live Revolution' Shri Ramanand Chaterji the editor of Modern Review, ridiculed the slogan of 'Long Live Revolution' through an editorial note and gave an entirly wrong interpretation. Bhagat Singh wrote a reply and handed it over to the trying megistrate to be sent to Modern Review. This was published in The Tribune of December 24, 1929. To THE EDITOR MODERN REVIEW You have in the December (1929) issue of your esteemed magazine, written a note under the caption "Long Live Revolution" and have pointed out the meaninglessness of this phrase.

DEAR BROTHER By the time you receive this letter I will be gone, going to a far off destination. Let me assure that I am prepared for the voyage inspite of all the sweet memory and inspite of all the charms of my life here. Upto this day one thing pinched in my heart and it was this that my brother, my own brother, misunderstood and accused me of a very serious charge - the charge of weakness. Today I am quite satisfied, today more than ever do I feel that was nothing, but a misunderstanding, a wrong calculation.

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When the higher powers of the world were fighting for the unworthy leadership decades earlier....

When the most memorable 'Wars of World' were fought virtually saving no world for men....

We either supported our brethren or stood silent.

Watching how the political factions wiped out the lives.

And gaining no experience of this..

When the English invaded us and looted us of all wealth.....

All resources....all men...all heritage..

We either suffered and survived the torture or died as martyrs.................

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Recently I have observed a mail floating all over the internet. Is shows some Queen of one of the former Indian Princely states. They also show the Tiranga on her feet. People are forwarding this mail to everyone in their friend's list. They are saying that every India's blood must boil at seeing this image and we should forward this mail to all so that the Government of India opens it's eyes to this. And yes, there are some patriotic lines and slogans too that accompany the mail. As my inner voice guided, I never forwarded these.

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This country of a billion people has seen it all. from external aggression to internal conflicts, from Kashmir to Kaveri, it has seen so much blood shed that somewhere deep down inside we have become in-sensitive to the news of deaths. The newspapers in past two days are talking about a heinous crime. They are talking about the bomb blasts in Samjhauta Express. Death toll of 68. The suspects boarded the train from our capital-New Delhi. I guess more Indians knew about the London bombings of 7-7 than this incidence.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted b