INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN......143

INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN…...143
Dr K Prabhakar Rao



(Gandhi, Patel and Nehru are seen walking in Heavens and they take a turn on the road and the road is narrow with darkness at a distance)

Patel. Bapu Where are we heading? The road appears to be diminishing. At distance I see only darkness. Should we go there?

Nehru. Bapu. Let us turn back I am getting scared. I fear darkness.

Patel. Jawaharlal. Be bold. You were a freedom fighter.

Nehru. Hope you are not sarcastic. What do you mean by freedom fighter? This word is used in India now in derogatory manner. It is meant for a guy who wants everything free.

Gandhi. What is derogatory in this? You should be proud of this title.

Nehru. Bapu. It is not as simple as it. After India got independence freedom fighters became a distinguished category. As time passed they were given special railway passes, pension, and other benefits. Such things went on for years and by that time most of the real veterans died. Many youngsters at the time of 1947also became old and they also demanded these facilities. They had to provide evidence that they were arrested in agitations during independence movement. Based on police records many were given facilities Some were given Tamra Patras too. It went on for many years. Even those people died in course of time. Again many people applied for concessions. Probably some were infants and toddlers in 1947. This became a joke on the nation.

Patel. Probably some criminals arrested by Police too applied for concessions. I am not sure whether any one got these concessions. Some were surely shady guys. Thus people started calling the guys freedom fighters who claim special status and privileges..heee..heee. But Jawaharlal was surely a real freedom fighter like me.

Nehru. Thanks Patel. Bapu. Should we go ahead?

Gandhi. Let us go slow now we do not know what danger awaits us there.

Patel Bapu. Why should we be scared lot ? We are already dead. We can not die again.

( In the mean time lean figure emerges from Darkness. He is in Military uniform He has beard and is putting a peak cap too. He confronts the trio)

Patel. Hello Bhai. Who are you sir emerging out of darkness?

Stranger. I am Kasim Razvi. Hello Patel sahib. How are you? Have you not recognized me? I am Razvi, the Field marshal. And the great Razakar

Patel. Hello Razvi sahib. I was wondering I saw you some where. Now I could place you. How are you? From where you are coming?

Razvi. I am also in heavens. Of course that heavens is different from what you have here..Islam has its own heavens. We have it across the darkness.

Patel. I see.

Razvi. You can not see it.

Patel. It is strange. You should have been in hell as per my assessment. You committed so many atrocities through your forces of Razakars.

Razvi. That was long time ago and you think they were atrocities.

Nehru. If not what are they?

Razvi. I was waging a battle for independence for my ruler Nizam 7. It was a jihad.

Patel. You call it a battle for independence. How strange?

Razvi. Then what should I call? Was it a Tamasha?

Patel. You were Frankenstein in the company of Nizam 7. You misguided him and ensured he was your puppet.

Razvi. That is our achievement. He did not want to loose his kingdom.

Patel. You exploited it. Poor Nizam paid dearly. You have nothing to loose. You were a hard core criminal. Your hands were soiled with blood of innocents.

Razvi. These things occur in history. Don’t you know Baber sat over the tower of skulls at Khanwa after defeating Rana Sangram singh? Has he not become a great emperor? Don’t you know that your leaders in India go to Afghanistan on visits and bow at Baber’s grave and lick it at Kabul? It is a bad luck that we lost war in Hyderabad. We underestimated Indian union. We thought whole Muslims in India would rise up in arms if Union army attacked Hyderabad. We also thought India would not attack us as they were completely entangled with their own problems. But all this did not work. We were screwed well. If we managed to remain independent I would have become a great hero in History. For some Muslims in India I am still a hero.

Patel. How could you underestimate us?

Razvi. Some mistakes do occur. It was our bad luck that MK Gandhi died on 30 January 1948 I he was alive he would have never allowed Police action. After all Hyderabad was an Islamic state. You would not have attacked us against Gandhi’s approval.

Gandhi. Probably true. I always said Hindus and Muslims were my two eyes. Pakistan was created in 1947. But I did not allow Muslims to be driven out of India. India was for everyone. If Hyderabad was to remain independent I would have said fine.I even went for a fast to death so that India coughed up 5 crores of rupees to Pakistan. Godese finally put bullets into me.

Razvi. In independent Hyderabad state I would have become a great person. I would have become a PM or even more. Who knows?

Patel. It was very good that you lost. Some how you were lucky that you were not hanged. Allah spared you.

Razvi. It was no credit of you.

Patel. Iam shocked to find you in your heavens

Razvi. It happens to Jihadis who fight for Islam and become martyrs.

Patel. You were no martyr. You were in jail and then died in Pakistan unsung.

Razvi. This you will never understand.

Nehru. Probably you thought that you would get hero’s welcome in Pakistan.

Patel. They just ignored you like an insect in a dirty pot.

(Razvi looks this way and that way)

Razvi. Patel. Just look. Razvi is not over yet. I am not alive today. But there are many Razvi in India who are determined to take up my battle. They shall create more Pakistans from India. War is not yet over. It will go on till India is Islamized. I already said once that Asifia flag would fly over Red fort. Our struggle would continue till we achieve the aim. Allah Ho Akbar..

Patel. Don’t be crazy. That will never happen. Keep dreaming oh nut.

Gandhi. Razvi. Please go out from here. I do not want to become a witness to this quarrel.

Razvi. Ok Mr. Gandhi. Look Patel. Keep watching. One day new Mughals would again rule in India

Patel. Get lost, you crank. Vanish from here before I call General Chaudhry who smashed your Razakars and Hyderabad Army. Like rats.


Razvi. Oh… Gen Chaudhry.. Ohfo…. No… no.. Run from here


( Razvi turns back and gallops into darkness)

Gandhi. Patel. That character ran away.

Patel. What else he can do?. Now let us go back home

Nehru. That is fine

(The trio walk back home singing ramdhun)


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