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Once again, the anti-establishment voices are fiercer and louder.
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Once again, loyalties are divided one section is with the establishment and another is on the streets, protesting against it.
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Today, 222 years after the birth of the poet and 162 years after the first Indian revolt against the British, the country seems to be caught in an eerily similar situation as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Registry of Citizens mount across the length and breadth of the country. In this dichotomy, Ghalib has managed to emerge as perhaps the most honest metaphor of a politically changing India. However, the writer in him, a true Indian and arguably a patriot, couldn’t let things go unrecorded. This is because Ghalib, a smart and pragmatic man, knew that he was now dependent on the British for his income and subsequent pension, which meant that he couldn’t risk offending the new masters of Hindustan. While it hardly ever, if at all, reflected in his mainstream poetry, he recorded the events in his Persian diary, Dastambu (bouquet) as well as many letters he penned in a personal capacity. As someone who was stationed in Delhi, the epicenter of all activity, during these turbulent times, Ghalib astutely observed the ongoing events. Although ultimately unsuccessful, the revolt is an important milestone in India’s struggle for Independence. The rebellion of 1857, which began as a revolt of sepoys of the East India Company’s army against its British officers, has gone down in history as North India’s first war of independence. Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Image Demonstrators protest with posters and banners against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) at Jantar Mantar on Decemin New Delhi, India.
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