By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
11 February, 2011
Countercurrents.org
“Simhasan Khali Karo, Janta aati hai”
(Vacate the throne, the people are coming)
–Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’, Hindi poet
News has just come of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation.
The people of Egypt have just raised a political monument that will rank alongside their mightiest stone and mortar wonders of antiquity. They have shown the world a model exercise of peaceful, determined, and dignified people-power.
Three hundred or more are said to have died in the struggle of the last eighteen days. All of them were protesters, not one a representative of the hated regime. They met assaults by horse and camel borne thugs with even more resolve, thousands more pouring into Tahrir Square in response.
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