Today, I just woke up and felt that the story of the Republic Day needs to be told and retold till it parade of facts marches towards the common man. The story of the Republic in fact owes its genesis from the public outrage consequent to the 1919 Amritsar Massacre. why and how the movement of "poorna swaraj" is celebrated as Republic Day? Post Jallianwala Bagh saw Europeans at the receiving end and victims of violence for a change. The British countered it with the Rowlatt Act . The next year Gandhi committed to Swaraj, more as a spiritual independence. The basic demand of all Indians would be answered by the behaviour and response of the British, he felt and. led the nationwide civil disobedience to oppose the Rowlatt Act. For him the means was as important as the end and it took a Chauri Chaura to bring the equation back to square one. That led to more heartburns and more nationalistic resolve. We now quickly move on to 1928 where the salt in the wound continued with
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