Story Of A Great Indian Patriotic Legend d

Patriotism means loyalty of person to his/her own nation or the leaders of nation. A patriot is a person who
is on the side of his/her own nation or its leaders. Patriotism is different from nationalism. Nationalist thinks that
every ethnic group should have its own nation, so nations are to serve the people. In other words in nationalism
the nation is just a tool to have freedom for an ethnic group, while in patriotism the nation itself is the
highest value. There was a boy of age 12 in the year 1918 during the freedom struggle. His name
was Chandrashekhar Tiwari.
Once the boy was sitting in the class. After some time he heard the slogans from outside. He took the
permission from his teacher and went outside to see what was happening. He saw a sage leading some group.
Then he came to know that it was a freedom movement. Suddenly there was a change in the situation. He saw
some British officer attacked the crowd and hit the sage. This young patriotic boy who was observing all this was
angry to see all this did not keep quiet. He took a stone in his hand and hit the British officer. The policemen
attacked the boy to catch. But he escaped from the place.
The next morning the police went to Chandrashekhar's school and arrested the young boy. He was submitted
to court. The judge asked the boy to tell his name. The brave boy told his name as "Azad" which means freedom.
The judge was shocked. He asked the boy to tell his father's name. The boy replied saying "Swadheenata". Then
the judge with anger asked his last question, Tell your address". The boy laughed and replied that he likes to be in
jail and that was his permanent address. Then the judge gave him the punishment to beat the boy with the wet
rope made up of leather by a fat healthy person 12 times. The boy told that it was a shame for his act to get only
12 so asked the judge to increase the punishment. But the judge refused and the boy was taken to the place
where he should be beaten.
There the boy was made naked and the man started beating. It was so hard that the boy's skin was tore. But
the boy did not have tears but cried loudly "vande Mataram". For every beat his voice increased.
After the 12 beats the jailer returned the boy's dress. But the boy could not wear because the body was bleeding.
The flesh had come out. He was given 12 paisa to put bandage. The boy told to give the money to queen Victoria
and tell her that it was given by a young Indian patriot as out.
The boy was made naked and the man started beating. It was so hard that the boy's skin was tore. But the
boy did not have tears but cried loudly "Onde Mataram". For every beat his voice increased.
After the 12 beats the jailer returned the boy's dress. But the boy could not wear because the body was bleeding.
The flesh had come out. He was given 12 paise to put bandage. The boy told to give the money to queen Victoria
and tell her that it was given by a young Indian patriot as out.
The boy was none other than the great legend "Chandrashekhar Azad".