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If we are talking about freedom fighters, Polish freedom fighters/struggles are second most influential to me after my own country especially because of Witold Pilecki. I once wrote a paper about Witold pilecki for my english project for who I consider to be the most influential person or something similar. I picked Witold pilecki because I had read a book which talked about him and it captured so much of my mind. Fo…
Thanks for sharing that! I actually know very little of Pilecki, because I was mostly hearing about him from far-right teachers & I have an allergy to personality cults. Ironically I've spend a lot of time reading about Gandhi . But I will read more on him, and also about the 3 revolutionaries you mentioned. > I hope that you are proud of your heritage/nation. We're in this weird limbo in Poland, all the patriotic st…
> Ironically I've spend a lot of time reading about Gandhi .
> But I will read more on him, and also about the 3 revolutionaries you mentioned.
Indian revolutionaries can be divided into two parts for the most part, some wanted peaceful changes and some wanted change through actions. The 3 I mentioned are revolutionaries within the second aspect.
I am personally not a big fan of gandhi given his personal history and controversies, but I am a fan of the satyagrah movement and the people who participated in them like gaffar khan,sarojini naidu and our second prime minister, lal bahadur shastri.
Within the satyagrah movement, I am particularly a fan of Shastri Ji as he might've been the humblest prime minister of our country and he was closely linked to the satyagrah movement, when our nation was going through a acute food crisis, he asked his wife while being the PM of the nation to not make food one time (so only 2 times) as he could only urge the people of the nation to do the same if he and his family could do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eauajC1U0X8, Here is one of the rare interviews he did outside of India as he was very focused in the nation himself. This might be the reason that many outsiders dont know him whereas gandhi used to travel quite frequently (as far as I can remember)
I also recommend watching a more personal movie about gandhi and his relation with family called "Gandhi, my father", its available on Youtube for free. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7jcXv5MwMU) which shows the troubled history gandhi had with his son
My thoughts on gandhi are a little nuanced. He was good for the nation in the movements but his personal life was also controversial and its best to view him as such and view both his flaws and positives about peacefulness in a more holistic manner while also taking a look at all the other people within the satyagrah movement like Shastri Ji for example and also people who sacrificed their lives for the nation like Bhagat Singh in hopes for a freed India.
> We're in this weird limbo in Poland, all the patriotic stuff has been hijacked by the virtue signaling (far)right and the centrists and left didn't bother to fight for it (even though all the remaining veterans of Warsaw Uprising were protesting the takeover).
if I have to comment on Indian politics right now, I would say that the media is at its weakest and feels very fake at times that independent channels are usually the ones only left if you want nuance. India's far right feels more religious rather than economical to me because economically, the far right is still having "freebies" but in some sense, they help the poor. Its the middle class which struggles a bit within India (I am from middle class :[ ) but overall, I am a bit happy in how our country is handling its geopolitics (India feels unique in the sense of its a friend of both Iran and Israel, a friend of both Us and russia, our only enemies are probably Pakistan and China and Pakistan is in a bit of quarrel with Afghanistan and isn't so much of a threat as China is, which is realisticly the only genuine threat that I can feel towards India)
It's a very unique country for the most part. I have written quite a lot about India on hackernews, so feel free to search it on algolia[0]
I do feel like India is an land of co-existence with both Human and animals as well. We all have our flaws but our diversity and heritage is truly rich and I hope that India can uplift itself in the future even more.
It is great to hear though of how each of our culture impacts the other. How polish culture/Witold pilecki influences my Morals and how on the other hand you are also interested within the Indian culture while at the same time we are both proud of the base realities of both nations but also realize its flaws and hope to improve nations.
I wish for Poland to have a great future ahead :-)
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Edit: I also recommend reading about Lal Bal Pal and the radical movement if you are interested to know about the anti-colonial movement within India as well whose combined with all of the nationalists that I have mentioned within the list ultimately led to the independence of India.