Why support Hari Singh?

Auden in his poem, ‘The Unknown Citizen’describes the life of an ordinary soldier/citizen who is a Conformist obeying the societal laws and performing every duties of a citizen without any question, and at the end dies an ordinary death. Likewise, 1993 India witnessed citizens of India dying an ordinary death in the name of communalism and casteism. Auden mocks at such unnecessary death and questions the freedom and happiness of these mentally chained citizens. His poem directly hit to the State that they prefer people who have no individuality and have no desire for self-assertion.

But one man who stood against the poisonous State of affairs was Hari Singh. He was a man of individuality and self-assertion who understood the system properly and took a step for the safeguard of his motherland. The true patriot in him raised his conscience and urged himself to go against the system for the sake of freedom, peace and harmony. But, the blindfolded government allegedly called him a hijacker for a bogus offence and sentenced him lifetime prison. This is what Auden has tried to demonstrate in his poem when an ordinary man wants a Utopian state but is reduced to a position of cog in the wheel.

Hari Singh like any other ordinary men was a teacher living a simple life, bored all family and societal duties and helped people in their needs. Everything was going smoothly when suddenly he became a victim of corruption. Out of 10 people in India, 9 people become a corruption victim and still their lips remain sealed. Hari Singh brought the issue in the front and fought for his rights.  A true nationalist, he wanted to save the holy soil of motherland but in return landed on the unholy soil of Tihar jail.

Hari Singh proved to be a good citizen having a good conduct even after he joined the league of prisoners. Having strong Gandhian values, he motivated the prison inmates, became an inspiration to all and stole hearts of the jail administrators and eminent visitors. His strong ideology of helping others and serving his motherland was taken notice by all. If he would be a hardcore criminal, there should be one such evidence of having bad records in jail. Ironically, he was awarded 3 times for his ‘excellent conduct’ in jail.

People of India, 67 years of Independence we have been celebrating every year and so we celebrate the republic day of being a part of a democratic nation. Democracy is always for the people, of the people and by the people. Democracy is about the freedom and happiness of every citizen. Hari Singh just wanted to remind the politicians and government of India not to forget the spirit of democracy.

His only crime-FIGHT FOR HUMANITY has become a laughing stock on a national level. The fight for corruption started 21 years ago. He was the unknown citizen but his exceptional motive had resulted in spending 21 years in jail. We the people of ‘New India’ know that we are not living in a totalitarian society but in an educated and a mature society where there is a voice for everything. Let’s be the voice and give Hari Singh the life which he wanted for us.  This is why you must support him and help him get justice. Justice for Hari Singh.





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Stand for Justice otherwise nobody will stand for you

 “Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just holds your hand.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
 
Hari Singh’s fight was never against a person or a system, it was only against the culture of corruption that crept into the system and ruined the essence of humanity. What he did might be defined as a threat to a set jurisprudence, but your sense of humanity nullifies if you can’t respect the integrity of being human & the value of a human life. Hari Singh has been a man of principles who believed in the very idea of justice which guaranteed equality, absolute equality & no discrimination at all. He encountered a chain of unfortunate events that shook him to the core and he decided not to remain silent and went ahead to be vocal against the prevalent injustice, which was being done to innocent citizens in name of faith & religion. Every one of us knows that no religion preaches violence so the very term religious violence happens to be a myth; all that exists is the vested interest of a handful of people who intend to manipulate religious sentiments of a common man in order to reap benefits out of them.

Hari Singh stood against this very conviction of ill minded people that India could be manipulated & they could ensure gains from it. What he did to stop those communal forces was a bit unusual but the motive was noble, he just wanted to save the harmony of his country from getting blown away in the winds of violence. Corrupt governance added fuel to the violence that broke out in early 90’s across the country & as a result India suffered some very fatal wounds, recovery from which continues till date. Hari Singh had sensed the danger & knew it well that India stood vulnerable to communalism. He became vocal & broke his silence. He organized public meetings to address the common man and informed them about the danger they were sleeping on, but all went in vain & he was disheartened.

He reached out to take a very enthusiastic step which only a man who loves his nation would understand, and ended up causing a stir in the air. Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. Can courage be punished if it is for the future of a country? Stop injustice to the man who has risked his life for you. Stand up against the injustice he has been facing for last 21 years. Stand up to tell the world that we believe in equality. Stand up and speak up, because if we didn’t speak today, corruption won’t let us speak tomorrow.
Ensure Justice for all. Ensure Justice for Hari Singh.

Join our movement if you want to fight against injustice

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

1. I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
2. I shall fear only God.
3. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
4. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
5. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”

                                                                                                             ― Mahatma Gandhi
A man of Gandhian thought & values, Hari Singh, has always put nation first, he harnessed the sense of sacrifice in him, and has been too prompt to act upon them all. As Gandhi ji faced numerous difficulties in battling the violence of British with his lone weapon which was non-violence, Hari Singh, too had his share of adversities, whether it was taking revolutionary steps to guarantee the integrity of India, his motherland or the life imprisonment he has been serving in Tihar for 21 years. He knew it well that if a path is smooth & easy it won’t get him to the destination ever, and if it was a thorny path, walking on which he might get hurt, he would reach the ultimate goal of universality, howsoever long the journey is. Peace & prosperity for all was always his primary concern for the society he belonged to, but he never knew that his love for nation would be wronged someday, and his enthusiasm & passion for sacrificing himself would make his life a curse & his family would be left alienated from the society he fought for.

Martin Luther King said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Hari Singh always believed in ‘Janani Janambhoomi Swarg Se Behtar’, and has lived his life in an idealistic manner, making it an example for others to follow. He enacted upon the very principles Gandhi Ji had followed, the path of satya & ahimsa. He didn’t know that society would forget it all and would expect him to echo it too. The message of Mahatma was overlooked and the benefits were being eyed out of the fire which burnt down the philosophies of sacrifice to ashes.

When India suffered a massive communal violence between years 1992-1993, and the government sat as a silent spectator, Hari Singh chose to differ; he chose to speak up, loud enough so that the deaf government could listen. All he wanted was to make the government listen to the agonies of common man, who suffered the loss of life and property during those black days. He wanted to raise a movement against injustice which was being done to the innocent citizens who hadn’t done anything wrong, who were being massacred for no reason, who just fell prey to communal fanaticism.
Hari Singh stood for us, and it’s high time we should stand up for him, for justice shouldn’t be delayed, when he awaits it impatiently. Let not his sacrifice go in vain, let not the voice of truth & justice be silence by the noise of injustice & fallacy. Join our struggle against injustice done to Hari Singh. Ask for justice so that nobody becomes a sufferer Hari Singh has become in last 21 years waiting for fair justice to be done. Justice for Hari Singh.

Human Rights

“The Declaration rests on a basic premise: that when the rights of human rights defenders are violated, all our rights are put in jeopardy and all of us are made less safe.”
                            - Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General September 14, 1998 NGO/DPI Conference

In the academic circles, the release of political prisoners is typically interpreted as a tactical compromise made by countries to counter human rights criticism. Outside academia, non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International have long focused their human rights advocacy on individual cases. Still, the specific circumstances under which international actors succeed in facilitating releases have not been identified. Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian. In India’s context, Human Rights violation hasn’t been a gross issue but it becomes a problem quite often when the individuals located in the matrix of public & private sectors come to crossroads with social, political & legal systems and the corruption widespread across them & fail. Though, the doctrine of human rights has been highly influential within international law, global and regional institutions, in the policies of countries and in the activities of non-governmental organizations and has become a keystone of public policy around the world. India thus, happens to be an occasional instance of human rights violation, but it’s ironical that whenever some issue is reported, it’s of extreme nature.

The case of Hari Singh could be considered one rarest of the rare case, in which he had been denied his fundamental right to have a fair trial. He was later convicted and awarded a life sentence as his punishment according to the Indian Penal code (IPC). Hari Singh has been in prison for last 21 years waiting for justice; the same is the condition with his family which has suffered a lot on social, economical, and emotional grounds battling everyday’s challenges. Hari Singh has been trapped amidst the uncertainty of crime’s definition, as he just posed to commit a crime but never committed it. The court acknowledged it too, that he did it all to make a political point, as he was disheartened by the events of violence which took the entire country in its stride in the beginning of year 1993.

What he craves for is just the acknowledgement of his intent behind his revolutionary act, and if at all the government gets keen on understanding his case, he will get fair justice. Let’s join hands to convey our message of humanity to the government so that his case must be reconsidered for mercy as he did no crime. Let’s ensure that Human Rights in his case won’t be violated because if it happens, it would bring a bad name to our country & our judicial system. Let’s put our best at work to show the solidarity a patriot needs. Let’s not punish him for any reason. Let’s put a full stop to his & his family’s sufferings. Lets’ fight for what is right. Justice for Hari Singh.






We Want Justice For My Father

A Family Fighting Against Injustice

Leo Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Sometimes our life becomes so unbearable that we can't barely keep going and want to give it all up.   Despair takes over and whisper in our ears that life is meaningless and it is not worth the effort, but we must not pay attention to it because we know where that path leads. My family has been fighting a battle since last 21 years to wash off the blames put on my father as he tried to do something revolutionary to serve an emergent need, something which law addresses as crime. 

My father didn’t get the very ‘benefit of doubt’ the corrupt politicians of India get as protection whenever brought to some court of justice, as the government felt that a crime would have occurred hadn’t the police intervene at the right time. What is the right time, or for that matter just ‘right’?  Was it the right time when police agreed to listen to my father & played foul on him to arrest him and he was sent to jail for a crime that didn’t occur? Or was it, when my father stood up against the demon of communalism and tried to convey a message to the nation risking his life and future and caused a stir in the air, just to cease the corruption & violence? Which was the right time?
My father, Hari Singh, has been a simple man all his life, content with love and respect for his nation. Unaware of the consequences he would face if he risked his life for the nation, his life took an usual turn in March 1993, when he decided to raise his voice against the injustice done to the innocent citizens of his nation, he risked it all, for his nation. He was never a man of khadi or khaki, nor did he aim to, all he knew were his values and principles, which kept him, going in life. My family was unaware too, of all the hardships which were waiting for us, after my father went to jail. Nobody could ever understand what it means to be a family of a man my father is. Every family has its own course which it takes in life to deal with adversities & to enjoy happiness with a sense of togetherness, latter being absent in our case, we were so unfortunate that we had to face all adversities alone.

The governments for last 21 years have been crushing the rights of a prisoner to secure fair justice through free trial, and to prove his innocence, because the law has gone blind. Definitions of crime aren’t clear to the ones who run our system, and they are free to write destinies of individuals as per their choice & pleasure. Where have we come in this race of global development as a democracy? Are we so heartless that we can’t guarantee a family its safety, security, & happiness? Or we just know the worth of a patriot when he is actually no more with us, awarding ration shops & petrol pumps to their survivors? We can’t be that cruel, be with me in my family’s quest for justice. Justice for a patriot. Justice for my father.

Justice for Hari Singh.

Is our law really just?

India’s independence has past 67 long years, but the lives of commoners today are far worse than it was under British rule. The comfort of independence hasn’t catered to the needs of everyone in India; the law seems to provide immunity only to the influential & powerful, alienating the common man, who has been living life on an edge.  Rich people have established nexus with those in power and are getting favorable laws enacted to suit their ends. Those in power are shamelessly luxuries all at tax payer's expense, while more than 50 million are starving to death. Hasn’t our legal system failed in delivering fair justice to the average Indian?  There has been a gradual criminalization of the social, political & judicial systems in India which is nearing completion & if not attended in a sparing way would bring absolute corruption to the society that is our habitat. The aforesaid are believed to be the iron pillars of democracy upon which the structure of a nation.

Corruption has been swallowing the political will to establish rule of law and has spread its tentacles far & wide. From womb to tomb, corruption has taken everything in its stride, from maternity hospital to grave yard; we experience corruption at every instance in our daily lives.  The injustices & atrocities perpetrated by public servants are worse than that of the British rule. Hari Singh has experienced the failure of the Indian legal system for the last 21 years, which he has spent in a prison cell, filled up with resentment, hurt by the acknowledgement by society, he believes that his society hasn’t endured the vulnerability to corruption, failing which the true meaning of Independence couldn’t be understood. He has begun feeling that no matter how big your sacrifice is, the corruption has bigger jaws waiting to eat it all up, and banish the very essence of sacrifice.

It had been our culture since the ancient times to give sacrifices whenever & wherever the needs rose. Whether Eklavya’s sacrifice to Guru Dronacharya in lieu of the spiritual & ballistic wisdom, he received from him or Veer Abdul Hameed who had shown exceptional war excellence and sacrificed his life in which India’s future was at stake. Sacrifices have been our perpetual practice since forever, but when Hari Singh’s turn came & he risked his life for his nation, it seems our law & society have closed eyes and have gone blind. We have become silent spectators to the injustice that is being done to him for last 21 years. It is a moment of anticipation for us to review our legal system to safeguard the rights of a patriot Hari Singh is. Please stand up for unity & universality. Please unite for what is right & demand Justice for Hari Singh.


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My Father, a True Patriot

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

A leading news paper of India, The Hindu in its issue dated March 30th 2011 had quoted that, “Hari Singh committed the crime to make a political point; Court also asks the government to suitably commute sentence.” It becomes important to take a look at what exactly a crime is? Collins’s dictionary defines it as ‘an evil act’, & Oxford dictionary refers to it as, ‘an action or activity considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong’, so it is quite clear that crime is something after committing which  a doer feels shame and regrets it, generally. So did my father do anything shameful if he tried to save lives of innocent citizens of India who were sleeping on dynamites?

The venom corruption and communalism had injected into the veins of some fanatics had to be treated immediately, what wrong did my father do if he tried to cure that emergent social evil?  What wrong did my father do if he called upon the responsible citizens of India and wanted to deliver the message of humanity, equality & kindness? Was he wrong? If he was, then what about Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Ashfaq Ullah & Rajendra Lahidi? Were they guilty too, of saving their motherland from jaws of evil? My father has lived his life up to the expectations our forefathers had, an idealistic life in which he never compromised on his values. Was he wrong if chose the way to safeguard humanity? If he wasn’t then who is guilty if he suffers today? Hari Singh is my father & he is suffering.

It’s him or the system. If he isn’t the criminal, then the system is, and everyone knows that he isn’t. Loving a nation out of spirituality an individual has within personality isn’t a crime. My father just tried to give peace a chance & heal the wounds of motherland he was accountable to. He just listened to his heart which was full of love for his country & went ahead to ensure the safety & security of his country. He wasn’t wrong then & he isn’t wrong today, but he is serving a life sentence in a prison today, with all the difficulties & dies a death every single day. Take a moment and think about it, is this what we have to give a patriot in lieu of his sacrifices for the nation? Is this how we have been treating the sons of soil? If the answer is a YES then this is our moment of shame & if it’s a NO then we must try our best to bring fair justice for him. I am proud of being a patriot’s blood, take your share of pride and fight for his rights. Justice for Hari Singh.

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1992-1993: The darkest years of our lives

 “Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”

                                                ― Martin Luther King Jr.

 Each one of us in this big world is different in many senses, be it the experiences that nobody else can claim or the difficulties of discerning lives. Even when we live in big social groups, each person focuses on something different, thinking of something different, noticing something different, that something is usually unknown to us, so we don’t actually have an idea what exactly people are going through. This makes us unaware of the agonies of people living a struggling life & allows such people to evolve as better individuals, but not in every case.

 There are times in life when people living in a big society fall short of companionship & support when they need it most, it becomes more painful when your agonies are a result of your sacrifices for the society & on greater part for the nation. That is why every person has a story to tell, and it is why we can learn from every single person. As much as we learn from their stories, we begin realizing that there lies so much that we didn’t notice. Perhaps the person next to us looked up at the right time to see something we couldn’t see, which is why we must be listening to the stories people wish to say in order to discover what actually & exactly we have missed in our lives. One such instance of pain is my father’s life & the life we have been living without him for last 21 years, as he serves a life sentence in a prison for an unusual reason. Love for Nation. At a time when India was burning & everyone was watching. It was the December of 1992, the black year when riots broke out and humanity battled with inhumanity, when corruption & anarchy were at an all time high.

My father, Hari Singh, has a story which could stir many people, for he dared to fight for what was right in the situation he was forced by the prevalent corruption in our country, India. He has been experiencing the pain of separation from his own family for last 21 years which he has lived up in a prison cell, convicted for a crime that actually never happened at all.  On 27th March 1993, he stood up against the communal violence & corruption which had taken entire country on a toll, and was wronged as a hijacker.

The police played foul on him and the case was a clear foul play, as a result of which my father ended up landing in a jail.  He is being awaited with bated breaths by our family and friends who believe that he is innocent, but the government doesn’t seem to listen as it didn’t commute my father’s punishment as directed by the high court. We are bearing the brunt of my father’s love for nation which inspired him to become the revolutionary he is, to us & to all those who have known him. Our destiny is being written by an efficient system which is in hands of blinds & deafs. Please support our struggle for bringing back my father & demand justice for him. Justice for Hari singh.

Corrupt politicians of India

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index of 2012 ranks India on 94^th place out of 176 countries in ties with Benin, Colombia, Djibouti, Greece, Moldova, Mongolia, and Senegal. India’s corruption basically accounts to entitlement programs & social spending schemes enacted by Indian government. MNREGA, NRHM, CWG, Colgate & 2G Spectrum scams are just a few recent representatives of corruption in India. The list goes endless when we delve deeper into it and investigate further, back to the times of India’s independence in 1947. Corruption isn’t just India’s own epidemic, it is a global problem faced by all the nations of the world.

Everyone and everything has known corruption in some sort or the other, and has developed its own special way of combating it, either with same resistance or with non-violence. Non-violence made Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Mahatma he became from just an ordinary lawyer, today India breaths in free air and is thankful to Mahatma Gandhi, our father of nation. John Steinbeck writes, “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” That very fear he talks about has been the nightmare of most politicians in India and has kept them floating free till date. It is not that those politicians are mightier than the citizens, but because of the fact that, to an extent the masses have learnt living with it, adapting to the compromises in everyday life.

Hari Singh resisted to the adamant corruption which made the ruling government a silent spectator to the brutal massacre of innocent people, the events shook him to the core and he decided to act. He went ahead and took some revolutionary steps which the system later defined as crime, but it was just for the sake of humanity indeed. Everyone realized the sacrificed made by Hari Singh when the matter went to court and a lifetime of imprisonment was awarded to him, now when he is serving the punishment for the alleged crime he attempted against the corruption & the corrupt, the masses have started realizing the need of attending to the call for help by Hari Singh & his family, and that too for sake of humanity.

Not to target any of the corrupt leaders who have paved the way for the devastation of Indian democracy & its failure as a society, it becomes inevitable to come for rescue of a man who risked his life for saving the lives of 90 crore citizens of India. We may belong to any of the faiths or religions but this is a time when we have to show our solidarity for a person who didn’t think about religions of the ones he was saving and did put his future at stake. He risked it all for humanity, now we have to act to save humanity by bringing him back to his life as a family man. Let’s join hands and pledge that we will try our best to take back Hari Singh’s life to normalcy & ensure immunity & amnesty to him. Justice for Hari Singh.

Help a patriot & his family!

Jessy and Bryan Matteo have said, “Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water, it will make ripples throughout the entire pond”, today a patriot needs help as life & times have left him stranded between the fields of right & wrong. He is dealing with his quest for justice against the injustice done to him, long ago.

That was a time when he became restless to help his dying countrymen who were victimized by the communalism which had taken the entire country in its embrace during the beginning of 90’s decade. Riots broke up across India and the corrupt government remained silent over the bloodbath on the streets, when law & order went out of control and security forces kept waiting for the orders to act. The public interests were kept on bay & the executives of the government sat in the comfort of their homes and watched the country burn in flames of hatred. Nobody dared to act, it wasn’t a normal riot situation too, but even later, no resistance was notice until the month of March came in 1993.

On a fine morning, a man shaken & stirred up by the massive violence & inactiveness of rescuing authorities writes a letter of 31 pages and submits to the CBI and then reaches to the Palam Airport in Delhi & boards an aircraft enroute Hyderabad as a passenger, hands over the same letter to the captain & crew who got him confused as a hijacker; the episode concludes with landing at Raja Sansi Airport, Amritsar & the man arrested after the negotiation with state’s police chief. That letter wasn’t a hijack note; neither the man was a hijacker, nor did he intend to hijack. All he wanted was just a kind audience from the responsible citizens of India, the intelligentsia, which is believed to carry the moral responsibility of propagation of truth, peace, & harmony across the country. That letter was just an appeal in which he urged the government, intelligentsia, & common people to put an end to the corruption & communalism that prevailed during those dark years of Indian history. That man was just a teacher who out of his idealistic philosophies couldn’t reach to an immediate solution to the communal problem which has risen in India during those days, and he ended up doing what he actually did. That was it.

He didn’t commit any crime, nor did his conduct deserved to be termed as a crime as he didn’t harm any life or property, then why was he sent to jail? A lifetime behind the bars of an infamous Delhi prison, 21 years of uncertainty for his family which have become more longer than a lifetime itself. Was he guilty? That is a question for everyone’s soul. If he was not then please listen to your soul’s cry & help that man. The man is Hari Singh, the true Indian, who risked everything for India and needs justice for him and his family. Help him in his battle to guarantee him the right of fair justice, guaranteed by the constitution.

Justice for Hari Singh.

How Corruption Affects Society?

Corruption is a power abuse, which refers to a unique situation when the powerful manipulates those with less power or having no power at all. It exists everywhere around the globe in different forms, however, the degree to which it impacts the common people’s lives and increases poverty is directly proportional to the level of this misery and how widespread it is in society. Corruption hampers the growth of a society on political, economical and environmental dimensions.

In a democratic system, public institutions and offices may lose their legitimacy when they misuse their power for private interest. It reduces interest of political participation and results in unstable politics, lessening the political competition ultimately invalidating the will to practice transparency in political decision making, distorting political development which further leads to sustenance of political activity based on patronage, clients, and money etc. India has been amongst the list of most corrupt nations of the world and unfortunately ranks 94^th on the corruption index of an organization which endeavors to battle corruption globally. It is a national shame that we being on the verge of becoming a developed nation and biggest democracy of the world haven’t learned to function as a country that cares for the welfare of its citizens ensuring good governance to them.

A man from a small town of northern India gets disheartened at the rampant corruption which engulfs his entire country, mocking the lengthiest constitution of the world and putting it in hands of a demon called communalism. He reaches out for safeguarding of his country’s constitution and takes some revolutionary steps which could convince his conscience. He didn’t remain silent when humanity suffered; he shouldered his responsibilities as a citizen of India respecting humanity which happens to be his religion. He was just an ordinary man but went ahead with his extraordinary love for motherland and risked his life and future for the future of the land he was born in.

Today he is suffering, and suffers the family which awaits him to be with them as their guardian angel. He is suffering because he tried to save us & our future, risking his own, won’t we payback when he needs our help today? When the honorable high court has clearly asked to commute his punishment & the stubborn government isn't listening at all? It becomes our responsibility to make the deaf listen; we have to show our support with this son of soil, the motherland is proud of. He is Hari Singh. Let’s be with him as he fights for right, let’s be his strength in his struggle for justice, let’s end his family’s never ending wait. Justice for Hari Singh.

Standing Up Against Injustice

“Every act of rebellion expresses nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”

                                      ― Albert Camus, the Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

It is not a crime to speak your mind in a democracy, especially when it is something, which has been built upon the numerous sacrifices of sweat, sword & blood of our forefathers, who dreamt of better future for their generations to come, away from the jaws of slavery they could never escape. The British ruled India for 200 consecutive years and during all this time, the native Indians saw every atrocity which they even didn’t dream about. Slavery is never a pleasant feeling which could be enjoyed or talked about with great interests; rather it is a painful situation in which an individual curses his life. Henry David Thoreau says, “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” The world has seen many revolutionary who stood against injustice and brought about revolutions to change the course of history & map of the world itself.

There have been revolutions in world as early as in the 2^nd century BC, when Spartacus, one of the slave leaders who led a major revolt against the Roman Empire, in the Third Servile War. Spartacus has become symbolic of revolutionary leaders fighting oppression. Jesus Christ, the prophet of Christianity, taught a new message based on forgiveness. He challenged many of the prevailing religious and social orthodoxies of the day. Sri Aurobindo, an early Indian revolutionary, who was one of the earliest Indian politicians to pursue complete Indian independence for his country. After spending a year in prison on trial for revolutionary activities, he later retired from politics and became a spiritual philosopher and teacher. Mahatma Gandhi, whom we know as father of our nation, inspired a series of non-violent protests against British rule. His iconic protest against the salt tax, helped to raise the profile of Indian independence.

Standing against injustice has been a vital need of society & to let humanity survive and usher in an atmosphere of equality.  A man motivated by gandhian thought, & human values stood up against the injustice done to innocent people, who were left homeless & foodless post communal violence of 90’s across India, and was wronged up by the ruling government. He has spent his 21 precious years of life behind bars longing for justice. He did no crime, all he did was just an attempt to save humanity from getting stained in blood, and he just tried to awaken the masses, so as to bring about an immediate change in society, which could ensure justice and equality. He became a revolutionary in his own terms but has been captivated by the corrupt system for raising the voice against it. This revolutionary was Hari Singh, who is serving life sentence in a Delhi prison today and is awaiting justice for him. Do we have the courage to stand for justice?  Do we have the will to stand up against injustice? Do we have the heart which could feel the pain of revolutionary who is being harassed by a corrupt system? If yes, then we should be with this man, to get him & his family fair justice. Justice for Hari Singh.

A Life full of adversities

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
                                                                                                                                                           ― Theodore Roosevelt

I am Nidhi Singh, daughter of Hari Singh, the estranged patriot. When I look at my father’s life, it leaves me a bitter feeling that it is his philosophies & principles which are accountable for his sufferings which ultimately became my family’s suffering which don’t seem to end. I have lived up a life with a painful vacuum, in school there were students who didn’t have their parents as they were no more in this world, then there was me who had a father but not with her, for two decades, almost equal to my own age. Life has been unfair & cruel to me, since I have lived all these years without the guardianship of a father. A father is the central figure of a family, who ensures safety, security & happiness in the lives of the dependent members, especially children. I think of myself as the most unfortunate daughter who has a father but is leading a fatherless life because the law of the land seems to have been blindfolded.

My family is living with a blot on their social identity, my siblings suffered a lot during their education, needless to say as what were the reasons. Money may not be a staple diet but it certainly is a spice which adds taste to life. Spending days, months & years for a better tomorrow, it’s been 21 years and our search for happiness & comfort is still on. We haven’t reached anywhere, my mother has been playing the role of my father ever since my father is in prison, and she is tired. My mother is scared about our future and is clueless about what our lives would be if anything unfortunate happens. I want her worries to end; I want my father back with us. Nobody has the right to change the course of someone’s life like this, the government isn’t listening to my wailing family, and it has written our destiny with spurious ink which only darkens our lives even more.

I am Nidhi Singh. A part of the painful story called Hari Singh, and nothing is coincidental about this story. Who is the real culprit? My father, who tried to awaken a somnolent & corrupt government or the government which, out of its stubbornness, denied my father’s rights guaranteed by constitution, and established by honorable high court on March 29th 2011. I request you all to go through my story and be my helping hands in a daughter’s struggle to bring her father home.

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Waited for long- Hari Singh’s children now want JUSTICE

It has been a fight for more than a decade by two children who have been looking for Justice to get back their father at home. Hari Singh from Haryana who has been framed criminal in 1993 for an act to reveal the fake faces of whistleblowers of democracy. Fighting for a fair Justice, Nidhi and Utsav today expect high hopes from the Delhi CM, Kejriwal. “The sentiments of my father and Kejriwal Ji seem to be same because both wanted a corruption free nation”, said Nidhi blatantly.

The life of Hari Singh’s family has changed drastically when the former was sentenced life time imprisonment when the law falsely framed him as ‘hijacker’. However, Nidhi, daughter of Hari Singh complains that if her father was a criminal, then there should be some criminal records but nothing was found as such. “He wrote a letter to the CBI and then derailed the plane. He took a revolutionary step for the sake of humanity, but his good deeds became his biggest enemy”, claimed Nidhi. Moreover, during his prison days, people like Kiran Bedi and Khushwant Singh always praised him for his sense of nationhood. 

It is the spirit of Singh’s children that they have raised their voice for a person who had a simple background, led a simple life, once became a victim of corruption and later witnessed the violence in his country. The love for father and the urge to find Justice, Nidhi and Utsav cut off from their regular lives had to rush to the former CM’s office with some hopes that their father’s mercy petition file will be pushed forward. “We went to the office everyday and for 3 years the file lied pending and nobody cared to listen to us”, said Utsav Singh, son of Singh.  

21 years is too much to make a person away from his family. According to Utsav, Hari Singh was frustrated and completely lost faith in the system of 1993, but he says that he has lots of hope from AAP today. Singh’s children vowed to bring Justice for their father only after they meet Arvind Kejriwal. Dated Jan 3, 2014, an application written to Kejriwal was acknowledged from the CM’s office, they visited Janta Darbar, CM’s resident gate and his office with effect from 11 Jan 2014 to 14 Jan, 2014. Although the petition file has been submitted in Kejriwal’s office, but they expect that history would not repeat this time again.

Struggling and waiting for so long, Singh’s children now want a full-fledged justice for their father. So in respect to this, they organised a peace march at Jantar Mantar on Jan 19, 2014. The silent protest was a strong light of probability and hopes for Singh’s family that one day Hari Singh, being the son of the soil will soon get justice from his own motherland. Supporters of Hari Singh flocked there and shared their viewpoints. One of them said, “Hari Singh is a man of principles. He only wanted a secure India and he deserves Justice.”

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Searching for Justice at Jantar Mantar

“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

                                                                                                                                                                 --Theodore Roosevelt

Life for me remained not the same after my father was sent to the jail. Struggle since then has never come to an end. There were dark days looming around us and so did hopes that one day there will be someone or few to understand a family without a father, understand a man of principles who stood for the nation and by the nation. There might be some chances that one quarter of the masses got aware of my father, Hari Singh’s immense sacrifice for his country but, there was a need to spread awareness to a large number of crowds as well.

This great need was pronounced in the name of a peace march at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, January 19, 2014. It was a day of strong light of probability and anticipation and it was increased when supporters of my father flocked in abundant at Jantar Mantar. They expressed empathy by sharing their own viewpoint about my father’s unusual stand for a country when it was a threat to corruption and other vice. Faith in us has made things possible but it has not been so easy to come this far. Standing on a stage with placards, I delivered speeches on my father and requested the government to hear our plea and commute his life sentence. Justice is always for the right and is the search for Justice a wrong thing?

With grief as well as hope, our bitter sorrows at once were heard by various media persons. I was happy when other fellow people were also asking about us and the motive of the protest. 21 years back it was an urge of a man to safeguard the motherland and after 21 years it is time to give justice to the son of the soil. It is a request from a son to AAP CM, Arvind Kejriwal who always upholds the right. 21 years is too much to make a person away from his family and this time a common man like Hari Singh will ought to get Justice and must come back to an orphan family living without a father.  

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