Flags had just changed on 15 August 1947 in Delhi, Capital of India. England had transfered it ruling powers over India to Indians. There were both jubilation and riots at the same time in different Geographies of India including its newly created borders after partition. Pakistan got its independence one day earlier on 14 August 1947. Pakistan that moment included what we know today as Bangladesh.
There was however one man in India who read the situation differently. This piece of writing is a tribute to that man who read politics, history and sociology differently from the rest of leadership. He wasn't highly educated in formal system yet was power house of literature that he created. His allegiance wasn't with ruling elites but with masses of India. Even as flags changed at the stroke of mid-night with Nehru declaring India as Free nation amongst nation, this man thought differently, immidiately, urgently, timely.
He gave public call to his fellow colleagues to come out on the streets of Bombay very next day on 16 August 1947 with a slogan "yeh azadi jhuti Hai! Desh ki Janata bhooki Hai!", a clear statement of clear visionary. In English it meant "This freedom is fake! People the nation go hungry!"; People of Bombay, mostly workers responded to his call and 20,000 people marched on the streets. Officials of some Political Parties issued statements against the call of this man but he remained resolute in his convictions. His name is Anna Bhau Sathe, a great Poet in his contribution to the public causes of his time including de-construction of 15 August Independence of India.
After 79 years of the change in flags observations of Anna Bhau Sathe are proving increasingly correct and accurate. Free country should have hosted free people. Yet we see in India today its people in enslavement of hunger, poverty, deprivation, malnutrition without any sign of political responsiveness to address the situation.
Even slight scratching of societal problematic surface - fishing, mining, labour, cellular space, land grabs, Coastal grabs, new Ports installations, etc - indicates that the Freedom is far from genuine. In fact it is fake. Anna Bhau Sathe was courageous man to openly call out Indian Freedom as fake and for those who resist systemic brainwashing Anna Bhau Sathe is a source of great inspiration even though his narrative of Indian history is not found in text books in Indian Educational Institutions. Even then the truth escapes from the cracks in the wall!
It's true too that 15 August change in Flags of Indian rulers had no bearing on Goa being never a British colony. Independent India however annexed Goa through conquest on 19 December 1961 and extended its fake freedom to Goa and along with it all the brainwashing and mind control programs with nationalistic rituals.
Salute to Anna Bhau Sathe!
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