Originally posted by: HearMeRoar
 
Nope. We're not going to have any derailing here.
1. Kangana called the nonviolent freedom struggle begging. The people who died as a result are beggars according to her. The people who were imprisoned, those who were tortured... all beggars.
2. Therefore, her contention and that of those who support her claims is clearly that peaceful protests are beggary. Violent movement is the only brave way to fight an enemy.
3. But the nonviolent movement won the freedom. Rebut that if you can. 
4. The violent one... let's see, shall we?
Petitioning for clemency was allowed under law, and no one needed to be mocked for it. But Savarkar didn't simply petition for clemency, did he?
This is what he said to the Brits (parts in blue are cited from an article):
“The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?” 
Savarkar offered to serve the “government in any capacity”. He declared he no longer believed in violence, justifying his conversion to constitutionalism because of the reforms the British government had introduced.
Savarkar said his conversion to the constitutional line would bring back “all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me as their guide”.
THIS is bravery according to Kangana and her supporters? THIS is not begging?
No, thank you. I'd rather follow the emaciated Gandhi, who, after his arrest, continued with his nonviolent protests against British rule. 
There is self-respect in standing tall and striking back (not first) or taking it when you're unable to strike back but doing it anyway because it's your way of telling them "No, you are not my master!" 
There is zero self-respect in attacking from a position of power a people whose lands you're usurping (as the Brits did). And cowering the moment your puny attempt at violence gets caught (as Savarkar did) is cowardice. 
Guess why Bhagat Singh is considered a hero? Gandhi didn't agree with Singh's tactics, either. But Bhagat Singh didn't cower when he got caught. He looked the Brits in the eye as he died. 
Those are the kind of people Kangana spit her vitriol on.
4. I don't really care who the Indians Kangana quoted were. Point is they and she and you are parroting the British line. The same Brits who ultimately lost. Those who echo the British government's opinions on a people who won against them can and will be included in the same group or will be called cowards. 
5. There are many problems with Nehru's quasi-communist ideology, but liaising with Britain wasn't one of those issues. How do you think the world functions? You can just split off with no currency, no economy, no army, at 12:01 AM on August 15?
6. #5 leads to #6 actually. If you believe India could've functioned on its own on day 1 after centuries of serfdom, you will also believe India could've actually won an armed battle against the Brits. 
I have a suggestion for Kangana and her supporters. India now has the 2nd biggest military in the world, 2nd only to China.
Go ahead... sign up to fight a war against Britain. Or anyone else, say China.
Very few will. Because all those warmongers are usually quick to volunteer other people's lives, never their own.
So why would someone sane, who actually knows such an unequal war can never be won, draft a whole nation of young people into idiocy?
They fought the war with the weapons they possessed. And won!
7. Partition... so now the claim is because the INC was unable to prevent the violence that happened there, India didn't actually get freedom by nonviolent protests? How does that even compute? It's as silly as saying because Covid is not killing as many people as Nipa, Covid is not dangerous. 2 different things... let's not try to conflate and derail. 
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Enough is enough. The subcontinent existed for millennia before any of these political parties. The struggle of the people started in the 1800s. The land suffered many losses in the century which followed. Yes, freedom was obtained in 1947, and India was birthed. 
It's history. Trying to erase it makes you no better than those who destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas, than those who razed the subcontinent's temples and burned the ancient manuscripts. 
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