12th August, 2015: The struggle towards the freedom of India’s independence is finally picking up its pace. The era of British Raj looks to have entered its climax. The frequent uprisings in every part of the country seem to have taken the Royalty by surprise. Late last night the Viceroy and Governor-General of India tweeted through his office handle “@Viceroyalty_IN: This preposterous and dastardly act of trolling the tax officers will be severely dealt with!!”
Some would say that this was to be expected after the recent debacles by the government in its policy making. In an act of appeasing certain sections of people in some states where the uprisings were becoming frequent and violent, the government had banned the sale and consumption of beef. The crimes against women have shot up in every part of the country because of the nonchalant attitude of the White heads-of-police. In a cunning majority-group pleasing tactic they have successfully banned all the websites with adult content. Not to mention the steep rise in racist attacks; the Facebook page of the East Indian Railway Company reads “First-Class prohibits the entry of dogs and Indians”.
In this environment of hate and tension, there are certain revolutionaries who are flaring up the freedom movement. Mr. M. K. Gandhi, Lawyer and ‘Twitter-Celeb’, through his online petitions and social-media activism is creating ruffles in the Queen’s feathers. His #NonCooperation was trending on top in India and 3rd worldwide last week. This week he has been urging all his followers to unfollow and unsubscribe all British handles and channels respectively and then tweet about it using #Satyagraha. Mr. S. C. Bose with his military and intelligence background has been allegedly forming a secret army to start an uprising in order to topple the local governments. He has amassed a great number of followers in the name of Mr. Azad, Mr. Singh, Mr. Thapar, Mr. Rajguru and Mr. Rai etc.
The British authorities are pretty dazed with the sudden threat; hence as a knee-jerk reaction, they have decided to send Indian troops to Libya and Syria, in their war against the ISIS. The authorities have also passed a lot of legislations such as 66A of the Information Technology Act which makes ‘offensive statements’ punishable. The commanding officer in Champaner, Gujarat, had issued high tax (on land) and has surprisingly challenged the villagers to play a match of cricket to decide the future to the taxes in the province. Our team is being captained by Sachin Tendulkar and has a number of good fast bowlers in the likes of Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar. The match is scheduled to be played in the first week of December.
The near future will show whether the Indian freedom fighters will be able to create history and achieve independence. It will also be interesting to see how Jinnah’s separatist ideas lead to a change in the approach towards the Quit India Movement by Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Nehru. Let us just hope that tomorrow’s India wakes up to a democratic and just future.
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