Kanhaiya Kumar - Azadi - Lal Salaam Full Song @ JNU Campus

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Thanks to Kanhaiya Kumar, azadi is no longer a war cry for rebels looking for a cause. I was so amazed with the JNU's slogan song Azaadi. I kept on singing it all these days. And now...voilà! look what we have. I used to listen this slogan more than 30 times per day, Kanhaiya's azadi slogan become such a passionate one for me. Bhukhmari se azaadi. Sanghvade se azaadi. Samantvad se azaadi. Punjivad se azaadi. Brahmanvad se azaadi. Manuvad se azaadi. Hum lekar rahenge azaadi. Tum kuch bhi kar lo azaadi. Hai haq humaari azaadi. Hai jaan se pyari azaadi! I would love to see this song in some patriotic movie soon. Perfect ! The incarceration and release of Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) in a sedition case, has been greeted with great pomp by a section of the media; enough to warrant exasperation among a vast section of neo-nationalists, who are ruing the spectre of a hero’s welcome being given to a man, they believe to be wholly undeserving of the halo. There is also the typical commentary on how the BJP created a mountain out of a molehill, turning David to Goliath and giving rise to a firebrand, where no brand earlier existed. I have noticed the consternation of people who said it took talent to convert a Kaun Hai Yeh to Kanhaiya and that the BJP is flat-footed where it has to be fleet-footed. As usual, the finger-pointing is quick and miss-targeted. It is true that if it weren’t for the assiduous tailing of the issue by the ABVP in JNU, members of which who took umbrage at the content and hate-spewing against the nation by a group of now anonymous people, this matter could have been just canteen banter or at the most a nukkad natak, if left alone. The charge is that taking such over-the-top cognizance, taping the incident on phones and allowing media into the campus and overzealousness of BJP MPs to report the matter to police created the cinema-scope dimensions it finally did. The counter argument is that JNU has always harboured a section of students and faculty that lives on the fossilized ideas of the Left and Extreme-Left and that this time, it had gone too far. What also exacerbated the situation was the attempt at organising a similar anti-India event at the Press Club, which was denounced with much more alacrity and a lot less liberal angst. But this was JNU. So how dare you! Either way, a kaleidoscope of opinions has emerged on both side of the divide. The BJP’s opposition are witnessing the rise of a new hero; the Left a savior in their Bengal and Kerala electoral battles; perennial activists a rising son, Modi baiters a new Modi baiter and at least one cerebral Congress spokesperson, a Che Guevara. The Kashmiris, who has suddenly woken up to the possibility of a remote command centre in the heart of the nation’s intellectual bastion also expressed solidarity with Kanhaiya to the extent that he was sympathetic to their cause of azadi. Naturally, nationalists are equally sanguine that this sort of petulance against the state will no longer be tolerated. Now, who wouldn’t welcome more diversity at JNU? But I think that the greater determinant of how Kanhaiya and his comrades have shifted the base for the narrative on azadi is yet to be understood by most. For that, you only need to step back and listen to the cries of azadi, 50 times in 15 minutes, as one happy observer seemed to suggest. Here’s the thing: There’s a fresh whiff to this demand for azadi from all kind of ills that the Indian state represents for these young, bright revolutionaries. Note that that is a great deviation from the putrid azadi of the Kashmiris. For a change, we now can aspire for azadi from casteism; which is welcome; from poverty, which is laudable, from oppression which is wonderful and so on and so forth – and all of them charitable ambitions that nobody can disagree with. #‎Azaadi‬! Azaadi!Azaadi!! This battlecry emanating from ‪#‎JNU‬ is going to engulf the entire country....Low IQ ‪#‎Sanghis‬ and #ShamelessSmriti must be kicking themselves in the butt for opening the bottle and letting the genie out.. Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Azadi Kanhaiya Kumar Azadi Song Lal Salaam Azadi Song Lal Salaam returns to JNU