The Indian freedom struggle was not only a great story of patriotism, love for humanity and sacrifice, but also led to some great inspiring writings. These writings contain some of the Whereas there is always so much jingoism whenever we hear of Bhagat Singh and Netaji, few know that Bhagat was also an intellectual – one of his masterpiece being ‘Why am an atheist’. And there is so much to learn from Netaji – his autobiography ‘The Indian Pilgirm’, the ‘Indian Freedom Struggle’ – his view of the Indian freedom movement or well, the letters he wrote as a kid to his mother!
We need to digitize all these writings before they are lost,
make them open, free, easily accessible and searchable, on an easy to use web
platform. I guess, the government has already done this with the writings of
the Mahatma. There is need to do it for all the many others, who spoke in
voices of humanity, courage, love and morality: who had an idea of India – may be
some those which we do not today agree to and some those which we haven’t been able
to live up to.
Pros: Preserve the best traditions of the Indian freedom
struggle; Make it available to all.
Cons: Do not want any politics on it!
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