Pulwama, I weep for you! Whence 'Freedom Fighter'?

My father-in-law was a Freedom Fighter who was put in Alipuram and Bellary jails for participating in the Quit India Movement along with stalwarts, former President of India, Late Sri R.Venkatraman and several other prominent freedom activists of Tamil Nadu. That such a respected title of Freedom Fighter be used to refer to terrorists is blasphemy. 
Pulwama, I weep for you! Whence 'Freedom Fighter'?
"Freedom fighter launches attack,44 of occupying force killed in IOK"This, a headline in a newspaper of the enemy state,makes my calm-flowing bloodsurge with rageat such arrogant elevation of that respected title to decorate a fanatic!Whence my father-in-law and his freedom fighter comrades,sent to jail, a collective voice raisedwith the strength of non-violenceagainst lawless foreigners occupying our sacred land,and whence this brutal heartlessnessthat glorifies violence,perpetuates hostilityand claims morbid militancy to oustrightful occupants out their licit land?And these our brethren we called themwho once had resounded with us as onethat unified non-violent voice against illicit dominion, a voice that cried,"Quit India!"                   — Vidya Shankar


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