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One of the youngest Indian
freedom fighter and freedom God of Sindhi community Amar
shahid Hemu Kalani was bon on the twenty third day of
March in the year 1924 as the son of Jethibai and Pessumal
Kalani. This is the most unfortunate thing that this brave
son of sindh and inspiring sindhi soul even was not able
to complete teen age existence in the physical body. He
was is a brilliant student who passed the matriculation
exam with flying colors in the year 1942 as the student
from the famous Tilak high school of Sakhar [sukkur] the
city is presently in the Pakistan.
1942 holds a great value in the Indian history of struggle
for the freedom as during this time Mahatma Gandhi was
persisting for his famous Non co-operation movement.
Hemu's uncle, Dr. Mangharam Kalani was a famous
nationalist and great follower of Mahatama Gandhi hence
got attracted towards his activities and started singing
in the Prabhat Pheris [early morning awaking processions].
Entire country was under very strong waves of desire for
self rule and protest against the British rule was on from
every walk of life. Different ideologies and groups were
working in tandem for the one and only one common aim of
getting freedom. Hemu joined a group, expert in under
ground activities for allowing motherland to respire in
the atmosphere of freedom. In those days non humanitarian
treatment to common people by the military and government
was common thing so group decided to dislodge the railway
track for creating a hurdle in military movement.
Unfortunately on the action day, which was a full moon
day, when Hemu was dislodging track with three other group
member, the security force on duty caught them.
During the raid on Hemu Kalan's house a litho press and
other objectionable materials were also founded and they
were presented before the Marshal law court because during
those days Sakhar Distric was under the military rule and
Marshal law was in force. The court recommended life time
imprisonment for Hemu and forwarded his decision to higher
authorities at Hyderabad for the further action. In the
views of higher authorities the action of Hemu was liable
for higher punishment so they changed it to hanging till
the death. The news spread like a storm and a wave of
anger generated through the entire land. People started to
send telegrams to government officials for changing this
cruel decision, even Sadhu Vaswani and Shri Jamshed Ji
came forward with Mercy appeal but all the efforts went in
vain.
On the 21st January 1943 Hemu was hanged till death in the
Sakhar. It was a true surprise for the official present
there that they were not able to find any sign of fear on
the Hemu's face while he was taken to rope for hanging
till date. His weight in the prison was increased by 7lbs.
Hemu expressed his last will of taking birth again on this
holly land India with the officials. "Inqulab Zindabad"
"Bharat Mata Ki Jai" were the last spoken words of this
brave son. It was undeclared holiday in Sakhar as all the
citizens were present at Agani Sanskar [funerals] of Hemu
Kalani. |