TITLE“Republic Day Tears: For the Recorded and the Unrecorded”đ️ POEM (ENGLISH)Republic Day TearsToday is not just a date,It is a memory breathing in the air.The flag rises, songs echo loud,And suddenly, my eyes are wet with pray
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“Republic Day Tears: For the Recorded and the Unrecorded”
đ️ POEM (ENGLISH)
Republic Day Tears
Today is not just a date,
It is a memory breathing in the air.
The flag rises, songs echo loud,
And suddenly, my eyes are wet with prayer.
I cry for names carved in stone,
And more for those never engraved.
If history had room for all,
My ancestor would not remain unnamed.
Maulana—Munshi Amiruddin,
A poet whose words had fire and pain.
A freedom fighter behind prison walls,
Who fought without hope of fame.
No textbook speaks his sacrifice,
No chapter carries his voice.
Yet freedom felt his silent steps,
When he chose truth over choice.
I cry again for Karbala’s path,
For a journey lost in time.
Thirty thousand hearts crossed faith and land,
To stand with Hussain against crime.
No document tells their dust-filled march,
No archive recalls their vow.
But justice remembers every soul,
That refused to bow—then and now.
O Republic Day, receive these tears,
They are not of sorrow alone.
They fall for a nation built on bones,
Of the known—and the unknown.
đ PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
This poem rests on a simple but profound philosophical idea:
History is not equal to truth.
Republic Day reminds us of freedom, but philosophy asks:
Who paid the price, and who was remembered?
1️⃣ Recorded vs Unrecorded Truth
Written history selects. Moral history remembers.
A life not documented is not a life unreal—it is a life unheard.
Munshi Amiruddin represents silent freedom fighters—those who resisted without recognition, whose names dissolved but whose courage remained.
2️⃣ Ethical Truth Beyond Proof
The Karbala reference is not a claim of archival certainty.
It is a moral metaphor: that justice inspires across religions, borders, and centuries.
Some truths live not in evidence, but in conscience.
3️⃣ Republic Day as Remembrance, Not Celebration Alone
Philosophically, Republic Day is incomplete without reflection.
A nation matures not by celebrating power, but by honoring sacrifice—especially forgotten sacrifice.
Tears here are not weakness.
They are ethical awareness.
đ BLOG (ENGLISH ONLY)
Republic Day Tears: Remembering the Recorded and the Unrecorded
Blog – Part 1 of a Long-Form Essay
Introduction: Why Republic Day Makes Some of Us Cry
Republic Day is often associated with celebration—parades, flags, patriotic songs, and speeches about democracy. Yet for some, it is not only a day of pride. It is a day of memory.
As patriotic songs play, emotions rise—not because of joy alone, but because of remembrance. Behind every constitutional right lies sacrifice. Behind every national symbol lie lives—some celebrated, many forgotten.
This blog is born from tears that fell not from weakness, but from reflection.
Remembering a Freedom Fighter Without a Chapter
My mother’s grandfather was known as Maulana or Munshi Amiruddin. According to family memory and the narration of a school headmaster, he was a freedom fighter, an unreputed poet, and a story writer.
He was imprisoned for his involvement in the freedom movement.
He wrote to awaken minds, not to publish books.
Today, there is no official record of his life.
No document confirms his imprisonment.
No anthology preserves his poems.
To history, he may be invisible.
To memory, he is undeniable.
The Limits of Written History
Written history depends on survival—of paper, power, and privilege.
Colonial India erased many voices:
Local freedom fighters
Rural writers
Political prisoners without connections
Poets who wrote for people, not publishers
The absence of records does not imply absence of action.
It reveals the bias of preservation.
Freedom was not achieved only by those whose names survived.
Karbala and the Question of Unwritten Journeys
Another thought deepens the emotion.
There exists a belief that thirty thousand Brahmin Hindus once set out from India to accompany Imam Hussain against Yazid in Karbala.
History books remain silent on this.
Documents are absent.
Scholars debate.
Yet the belief persists—not as fact alone, but as ethical symbolism.
It expresses a deeper idea:
That justice calls across religions, and conscience travels farther than borders.
When History Is Silent, Philosophy Speaks
Philosophy teaches us something essential:
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Some truths belong to archives.
Others belong to humanity.
Munshi Amiruddin and the Karbala belief live in the second category.
đ Part 1 ends here.
In the next part, I will cover:
Republic Day as moral responsibility
Forgotten freedom fighters and ethical citizenship
Faith, doubt, and intellectual honesty
Moving toward a complete conclusion
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