The British Boot – Punch Magazine, 1875

One line - By thumping our women and weaklings. That's grand. - This is sufficient to tell about the British sadism. A good, but perverted read. In the middle of the hot night, the fan stops, and a man in the barrack-room, roused to desperation by heat and sleeplessness rushes forth, careless of the consequences, …

Jung-e-Azadi – Maqdoom Mohiuddin

Finally…after a search for years. Maqdoom’s iconic battle cry against the Razakar Movement in Hyderabad. Ye jung hai jung-e-azadi, azadi ke parcham ke tale Hum Hind ke rehne vaalonki, mehkoomonki, majbooronki, Azadi ke matwaalonki, Dehkaanonki, majdooronki Saara sansaar hamara hai Purab paschim uttar dakhkhin Hum Afrangi, Hum Amreeki Hum Cheeni java jaane watan Hum surkh sipahi …

Awake! – Sarojini Naidu

Well, another one over Jinnah as well... Waken, O mother! thy children implore thee, Who kneel in thy presence to serve and adore thee! The night is aflush with a dream of the morrow, Why still dost thou sleep in thy bondage of sorrow? Awaken and sever the woes that enthrall us, And hallow our …

The Sunset of the Century – Rabindranath Tagore

The last sun of the century sets amidst the blood-red clouds of the West and the whirlwind of hatred.The naked passion of self-love of Nations, in its drunken delirium of greed, isdancing to the clash of steel and the howling verses of vengeance.The hungry self of the Nation shall burst in a violence of fury …

Srinatha – A selection

Good poetry but over wrong topics 🙂 On his home kingdom – Kondaveedu From Haravilasam praising his patron Chaamisetti

Sri Krishna Deva Raya’s Paeans of Victory in Telugu Poetry

On the Battle of Raichur Mukku Timmana Rayavachakam On Kalinga Invasion Nandi Timmana The Emperor himself On the context of the peace pact with the Sultans of Golconda, Bijapur and Ahmednagar after the Kalinga Campaign Krishnadevaraya in Amuktamalyada on killing the Adil Shah.

A song by Kusumagraj(original Marathi)

A powerful one, but I will never subscribe to the concept. Sacrificing themselves like insects before a lamp, all for what? To impose what you think as right on the world, that too by violently opposing the existing order – a fight between two ideas, not an attempt to gain independence from a colonial power. …

The Released Rebel Prisoner – Herman Melville

Armies he's seen--the herds of war, But never such swarms of men As now in the Nineveh of the North-- How mad the Rebellion then! And yet but dimly he divines The depth of that deceit, And superstition of vast pride Humbled to such defeat. Seductive shone the Chiefs in arms-- His steel the nearest …

Ode – Arthur O’Shaughnessy

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And …

Qadam Qadam Badhaye Ja(Surge ahead step by step) – Pandit Vamsidhar Shukla

This Urdu lyric, a marching song of Azad Hind Fauz is a popular and stirring song used all over India, mainly in the military context. It was written by Pandit Vamsidhar Shukla and set to tune by Ram Singh Thakur, who set the tune for the national anthem of Azad Hind Fauz which was later …