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Selfishness to Selflessness:The resurrection of Activism

"Only a Life lived in service of other is worth living " - Albert Einstein The 20th century , an era today's tech savvy youth remembers for the history books they hated or the boring lectures they attended ! During that very age thousands of men and women across all age groups had given themselves into a struggle , they left behind everything they had and risked their lives for a dream that they had seen .We don't remember many of them today but even after knowing that their fate might be that of a forgotten warrior they kept going because they had a dream of a free and independent India , and a tricolour in their mind . Whenever need for political consciousness or social activism is brought up, the answer we get from most people is that they are too busy perusing their personal dreams! My only answer is that a 23 year old young man who would have had personal dreams was hanged to death for his fight for independence, and to the shock of the officials inste...