My Heroine of the moment and modern day heroes.

Who are these Heroes?

Across the world people are speaking up against racism , classism and stony elitism these days. And started celebrating our heroes and heroines of the past.

To get a better understanding of the history I would like you to hop in my “ Ship of Time” that we discussed in suicide article.

Now let us begin the Time travel.

As we all know this rage about racism classism and stony elitism is not borned yesterday. But it had travelled a long way and flourished till date.
As of now we are celebrating our heros like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King junior, Nelson Mandela And quoting them on everything.
But do you think we have any right to celebrate them?
We cannot just celebrate them without inviting there immediate and harsh criticism.
I certainly believe that they will stop us right there where we gathered to celebrate them. And they will ask us to think with them only. Not to think with those who speak in their names. That's what they did they think in their conscience.
Let us put the ship in reverse and start our short drive.

Firstly Why do we celebrate our heroes??
I think For clear understanding of the world around  And for better future isn't it?
The long freedom struggle of India it is long enough to be  counted in centuries. And now India stands as a free country free from colonised world.
South Africa struggled through chains of apartheid iron and snapped them in pieces. Decades of struggle.
USA struggled with civil rights act and made slavery a thing of ugly past. And elect a distinguished President Barack Obama.
That's it about the past for now.
Lets come back to present and ask ourselves we Indians, south africans and americans are we happy?? I believe that our heroes will ask the same question and we know the answer.
Our habitual greed of civilization i.e removing the internal organs of Earth and its resources further hunting down the earth's life to satisfy over cravings of commercial profit. There is an wild animal market in every city and town. More importantly than that within each of us who are not among the poor.

For instance our current king who owns the crown this moment the almighty. Yes I am talking about Novel coronavirus microbe which is is not different from manmade nuclear bomb. If you see the pattern the destruction that has happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki where innocent , invariably poor and marginalised human beings are killed and vaporized it's the same pattern as novel coronavirus microbe.

Either we play blame game with China Or we say that nature is taking out on us.
No nature is not taking out on us. But actually it has caught our “Dominating on everything Behaviour” and destroying things that we are meant to respect or to nurture. This kind of infection based pandemic Somewhere is the result of an unintended  creations of human like nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The greed among Nations to prove themselves supreme in the world. This greed brought us here on this edge. Our heroes did not fought for this greed they fought for the actual freedom now coming back to freedom and the history.

I saw the video of George flyod. And his dying words are “ I can't breathe” and for a moment these words just look like a rival of Martin Luther King Jr' s word “I have a Dream” . Flyod's word made a loud sound when the world  was breathing through masks, inhaling with fear. It gave us a chilling scenario of human originated crisis that we have brought upon ourselves.
I wrote the name of Mahatma Gandhi in beginning so let's talk about Mahatma Gandhi with today's scenario in India.
There is very much hustle about trains and migration of labour.
Well train and Gandhi had a interesting relationship. That relationship changed a lot of things.
Gandhi was thrown out of a train on the night of june 7 in 1893, in Pietermaritzburg. Well that train journey changed the whole course of colonial India. And we should thank those gaurds who throwed him out.
Similarly trains have came in limelight these days. Yes i am coming to the migrant labourers. Gandhi himself was  a migrant in south Africa except that he was a lawyer with a good income.
But these migrant workers Were locked out of livelihoods and locked out way of travel in their own country which is a far different scenario.
When lockdown was imposed there are two Stratas that i have seen. First one is the upper class of society for them lockdown meant staying home ,watching films ,eating , doing stationery exercise and staying one metre away from one another.
but the second strata that is the migrant worker they have total different and opposite options in lockdown for them there is sudden disappearance of wages or work their security has been gone and now they have to stay in their tiny Shelters. which also meant overcrowding, inhaling others exhaling for hours together so finally they decided to move on foot no matter how far they had to go just to get back home. They have Started their LONG WALK FOR HOME.
Some of them reached somehow, some of them still on the run, some of them lost their beloved none and remained got eaten by hunger.

We are thinking and talking of heroes today.
So I want to share a story of My little Heroine  and the ray of hope that i see.

Jamlo Madkam, i am sure of it that you have not heard of her because she did not did something big like these heroes but in my eyes she was my heroine of the moment.
Jamlo she was 12 year old from a tribal community of Chhattisgarh. Now just think what were you doing when you you were at the age of 12 and keep that memory running in your mind.
So jamlo went with others of her village to Telangana work on chilli farms. When the lockdown was announced she was told that her work had stopped and she had to leave as well as others. So, with others the little one started the walk. Now imagine 12 year old girl walking from Telangana to Chhattisgarh around 200 kilometres. Yes 200 kilometres.she didn't care about the three figure distance . So she walked with others with the wish to get home. She walked till she can she travelled for 3 days in a row almost 140 kilometres successfully. From three figured distance  to two figure distance. Now she was just 60km from her village and she can sense that her home is nearby. But now the problem is she could not walk anymore and suddenly she collapsed on the road and died in a moment.
The virus did not kill her. She was not thrown out of train. But she was thrown out of opportunity and pushed out of life. Just like so many other migrant workers.
No government ,no politician ,no individual but the whole lot of India's consumerist population yes we. We did that to her.
I don't know about the upcoming future because i think post-covid19, the old story set to be back . After all only those dying and meant to die, die.

And also I do not want to let down hope . So Just remembering the last words of Li wenliang the first doctor who  spread the so called social disorder by telling authorities that he has found some unidentified virus . And then posthumously thanked by people.
His last words are “I think there should be more thanone voice in a heathy society,”
So there are many Li's among the people and they are speaking up about it.

Major part of the world is saying on these issues. Those who are atleast raising their voices and saying “i can't breathe” they are not doing it in the name of Gandhi, Mandela and King. They are doing what Gandhi ,Mandela and King did at there time. And somewhere Flyod ,Jamlo and Li are  with them and They are the modern day heroes.