Tuesday 14 August 2018

What is Freedom?

What is Freedom?

Indian freedom fighters came from different Religions, Castes, Regions and Occupations.

In Ayodhya, in 1857, Maulana Ameer Ali and the priest of Hanuman temple Baba Ramcharan Das were prominent leaders of the freedom struggle. 

In the district of Faridabad, Raja Devibaksh Singh army was led by Acchan Khan and Shambu Prasad Shukla.

Literary experts and mathematics lovers, Muneer Beg and Hukumchand Jain from Hansi town (now Haryana) were revolutionary leaders of the Bahadurshah Zafar government.

In Madhya Pradesh, there was an association of Maulvi Fazal Haq, Tatia Tope, Rao Sahab, Laxmi Bai, and Feroz Shah.

In Delhi, Khan Bahadur Khan was appointed as the viceroy of Mughal emperor on May 11, 1857. His deputy was Khusi Ram. 

In Muzaffar Nagar district there was a team of 28-year-old Asha Devi and 45-year-old Asghari Begum. 

The above freedom fighters won many crucial battles against the British army and gave sleepless nights to the Lords and commanding officers.

However, this friendship and unity were undigested by stooges who cheated their own and reported the whereabouts of these brave fighters to the Britishers. 

As a result, many of these revolutionaries were caught and punished to death. 

Baba Ramcharan Das and Maulana Ameer Ali were captured and hanged side by side on a tamarind tree at the Kuber Teela in Ayodhya. 

Acchan Khan and Shambu Prasad Shukla were taken into custody and publicly subjected to serious torture and finally executed. 

Muneer Beg and HukumChand Jain were caught and hanged together on the same tree. To create a rift between Hindu's and Muslim's, Muneer Beg was cremated and HukumChand Jain was buried by the British government.

In the battle at Ranod, that happened on Dec 17, 1858, Moulvi Fazal Haq sacrificed his life to save Tatia Tope, Rao Sahab and Ferozshah from the sudden attack of British troops. 

Khan Bahadur Khan and Khusi Ram were captured and hanged along with hundreds of supporters outside Kotwali on March 20, 1860. 

Asha Devi was also hanged while Asghari Begum was burnt alive. 

Despite these executions and punishments, the struggle of Independence continued. 

The unity of freedom fighters was so strong that a senior British officer Thomas Lowe quoted,” the infanticide Rajput, the bigoted Brahmin, the fanatic Mussalman, and the luxury loving, fatpaunched ambitious Maharattah [sic], they all joined together in the cause; the cow- killer and the cow-worshipper, the pig-hater and the pig-eater, the crier of Allah is God and Mohommed [sic] his prophet and the mumbler of the mysteries of Brahma”. 

This unity was a hurdle for Britishers and they understood that to rule India they had to break this friendship that existed between the different communities.

They planted the seed of two nation theory in the minds of Indians. India got its freedom in 1947, but the seed of separate nation also grew into a ripe fruit and India and Pakistan got separated. 

Freedom is Unity.




Pic Courtesy: http://www.taxsutra.com/experts/column?sid=830

Monday 19 March 2018

The Box of Candies


How will you sell a box that plays an irritating music every time it is opened?


You can’t go on saying that – hey look, this is an amazing candy or cigar box that plays an irritating music whenever it is opened. Buy this.

You will probably make zero sales.

Because no one wants to hear that irritating piece of sound.

So you will report to your boss – hey look, I can’t sell this box because nobody wants to get irritated.

You may also request to remove that music and make it an ordinary box.

But your boss is a tough nut to crack.

He will simply say that either sell the box or get out.

Now you are stuck.

Your job depends on that irritating piece of box.

So how will you sell that box?

You can sell it by being a little creative.

Let’s assume that the box is used for keeping the candies.

Everyone knows that eating lots of candies can make a person gain weight.

Now target those specific people. 

People who eat lots of candies, and people who are obese and still keep on eating candies.

You can say them – hey look, there is no doubt that we all love eating candies. But sometimes we overdo it and it is tough to keep a count of the candies that we eat every day. And this habit of eating candy after candy leads to weight gain.

The customer will probably agree with you.

Now as you have their attention it’s time to make a pitch.

But not anymore. This box will help you in keeping a count. Every time you open this box it will play a music that will irritate your ears. Actually, it is a message, “Too much candy, be careful”.

Will it sell?

Hmmm… it can.

At least you will get a candy for thinking out of the box.

This trick was used by Klara Novak (Magaret Sullavan) in the move ‘The Shop Around the Corner’.

Watch it yourself.









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