Greetings
to ICAP and World Peace Council on 2022 International Seminar for Peace
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I extend my warmest greetings to The
Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and World Peace Council (CMP)
on holding VII International seminar for Peace and the abolition of foreign
Military bases of USA and NATO being held from 4th to 6th
May at Santa Clara-the city liberated by great revolutionary Che Guevara from criminal
Batista in a glorious victory in 1959. I express my solidarity with Cuban
people in their most just demand!
At this moment I fondly remember my visit
to Santa Clara on 16th December 2011, when I paid my tributes to the
memory of great revolutionary Che Guevara by visiting his grand memorial and
also visiting other places in the city relating to liberation. Prior to that I
had also visited Habana and Santiago de Cuba and paid my tributes to great
Cuban liberation at Moncada site and other sites of iconic revolution such as
visiting Revolutionary Museum, Granma ship etc. in Habana. Though I missed
Centre de Che Guevara in Habana, which was under renovation at that time! I
still wish to spend few months at Centre de Che in Habana to do research on Che
Guevara! I also participated in a meeting organized by ICAP in Santiago de Cuba
seeking the release of Cuban Five, one of whom is present President of ICAP-Fernando
Gonzales Llort! (I had the pleasure of meeting him Kathmandu during an
international seminar in 2018) That meeting presented Bolivian music group and
I was also invited to speak, and I expressed my solidarity with The Cuban-5.
In fact, I had
been regularly visiting and having friendly relations with Cuban and Venezuelan embasies in Port of Spain
in Trinidad &Tobago, where I was serving as Visiting Professor in Hindi during
year 2011 at The University of the West Indies-St. Augustine campus! I had
earlier good friendly relations with Cuban ambassador to India Miguel Ramirez,
whom I met again in Habana in a party by then Indian ambassador to Cuba! I
continue my friendship with Cuban embassy in India at Delhi.
Our South Asian revolutionary hero Bhagat
Singh and South American revolutionary hero Che Guevara are the inspiration for
the youth of the whole world. I run a page on Facebook-Che Guevara and
Bhagat Singh with few thousand members and also a group-Admirers of
Bhagat Singh and Che Guevara with few more thousand members. I had proposed
to ICAP for putting up a statue or Bust of Bhagat Singh on the road, where
statues of revolutionaries from all over the world are put up. It was
positively responded; Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had also met
Cuban ambassador in India to offer a bust of Bhagat Singh. There was lot of
media coverage about it at that time. I wish and hope that in coming years, a
bust or statue of South Asia’s most popular iconic revolutionary Bhagat Singh’s
Bust will be placed on Habana Road as symbol of unity of South Asian and South
American revolutionary tradition!
Once again with warmest greetings and
solidarity with Cuban people!
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