Gaddar: Naxalbari Children

The police has questioned the four boys like this:

Which is your village, ra?
Which is your locality?
Which is your dalam? ¹
Who is your dalam leader?
If you don’t answer clearly
We will set fire to you.

So the Naxalbari children reply:

We are the children of Naxalbari
We are the symbols of justice
We are the balance of exploitation
We are the brothers of Satyamanna²
We carry the red flag
We are the red suns. ³

1. A designated unit of revolutionaries.
2. Vempatapu Satyanarayana, or Satyam, was one of the martyrs of the Naxalbari movement.
3. Gaddar, My Life Is a Song: Gaddar’s Anthems for Revolution, trans. Vasanth Kannabiran (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books, 2021), 37.