You Cannot Kill Ideas

"While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas." said Thomas Sankara. This is true that a person might be killed or annihilated but his ideas never die. They continue to live among the hearts and minds of people and continue to inspire people.Nobody knows who the tank-man is or about his whereabouts but still he continues to motivate us. Similarly people like Gandhiji, Safdar Hashmi and Che Guevara might have been assassinated but their thoughts still live with us, in us.That is perhaps why I say :-

मैं आज हूँ, 

कल न रहूँगा,

यह कविता आज भी है,

और कल भी रहेगी.

I have also written a poem on the Tank-man, a man whose courage is worth admiration and taking inspiration from.

Tank man

You can kill me

You can annihilate me

Murder me if you can

But please remember one thing

Exterminating my body

Will not kill my ideas

I will be alive

In my ideas

My thoughts will continue to live.