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The spine-chilling background music by A. R. Rehman and the below words have always stayed in my mind from ever since I heard them (both of them, are for Shri. Shaheed Bhagat Singh-ji, who for the uninitiated, was a world-reknown atheist and socialist revolutionary, who considered the Hindu-Muslim divide and labour exploitation to be the bane of Indian society, who was sent to the gallows when he was just 23 years old. Many believe that he was so sent by the British Empire, due to the impact this young man made during his two year incarceration, like staying on a 'Hunger Strike' for close to Five-months, equal to, or more than entire hunger strike of Mahatma Gandhi during his entire career from South Africa days - which is an interesting story in itself),
Today, we pen our thoughts about the said legend and his friends. Friends who were so dedicated to their freedom, their cause, that they did not suffer from ethereal limitations such as we do. Despite the long and tiring struggles of incessant hunger strikes within Incarceration to be recognized and to be treated as political prisoners, he was within this short time able to write and accomplish, what no revolutionary had ever been able to, pull down an empire to its lowest ebb, while writing letters to family, friends, jail and court officials, write major articles such as "Why I am an Atheist", "Letters to Young Political Workers" and "Jail Notebook" and at the same time self-representing before firstly, highly farcical trials before regular courts and then later before a three-judge tribunal, whose sole task was to complete the Saunders murder case against him at the earliest with 'only one result' and without any challenge possible, except through Privy Council based on Viceroy Irwin's May 1930 Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance. The said ordinance never approved by the Indian Central Assembly, or the British Parliament due to its sham nature.
This timeline gave the country and its 1.3 billion people (and countless tourists from all across the globe) all of four (4) hours to get ready. It is also noteworthy that the initial announcement was only for a month and had urged everyone, including the 'poor' and 'hand-to-mouth' migrant workers, to stay where they are for the said month.
Pre-lockdown economic condition: We also need to make note of the fact that the 'Unemployment rates' in India were at a '40-year high' even before the start of the pandemic and the economy was showing a serious downward trend without COVID19 or its Lockdown in place. Thus, the pandemic and the sudden and unplanned lockdown thereafter have crushed that already crumbling economy. A massive number of people have lost their means of livelihoods, especially the migrant labour. By various estimates, anywhere between 82%-94% of the workforce in India is employed in the unorganised sector. And it is there, that there have been huge cuts in salaries across the board and, if the sales of automobiles and consumer durables are anything to go by, even by the most conservative estimates, you are looking at a loss of maybe more than 80% of the demand in the economy.
Similarly, Heart-in-Heart, all of us know that these are all orchestrated to divert attention of the sufferings of our fellow country-men, the migrant labourers, the unemployed, the underpaid, but why do we not react, or respond to it?
Similar to what NCP supremo and veteran leader, Shri. Sharad Pawar, explained to the poor people of the Maharashtra, of what difference does an air-strike in the jungles of Pakistan make to their daily struggles, time has come for honest self introspection, as to what gain, or benefit do we achieve by getting worked up by China, an enemy state, as per the 2017 amendment to the enemy property laws in India, when a Pharmaceutical company from a friendly nation, Gilead Sciences, still is allowed to market under an "accelerated marketing authorization" for Remdesvir in INDIA, for "Restricted emergency use" on hospitalized COVID19 patients, by invoking special provisions / exceptions under the New Drug and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019 WITHOUT LOCAL PHASE III TRIALS IN INDIA!
The legend, Shri. Shaheeed Bhagat Singh-ji invokes your soul to search for answers to such difficult questions. India is yet to see concrete flattening of the curve, but yet is going through various phases of "Unlock", does the life of the poor mean nothing to you?
Conclusion: We know that the readership for this client-education series is low, but in the eventuality of anyone questioning our approach to "Going Offshore", or "Going where treated the Best", or "Asset Protection Plans", or "Plan B passports", or "Legally reducing your taxes to zero or near zero by going offshore", we would not oblige an answer, rather request such a question to the above questions and ask the person questioning us over our unconventional services, to introspect answers to the above questions posed by Shri. Shaheed Bhagat Singh-ji to them.
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