Rajagopal speech in Lidköping on Iqbal and the Jai Jagat campaign: transcript

Key points

• Keeping the memory of Iqbal alive means keeping alive his struggle for justice, and people should stand up against injustice wherever it exists.
• Millions of children are driven from their land and resources, into slums and into inhuman living conditions.
• Rajagopal and friends from different parts of the world came at the invitation of BLLF to design a global campaign against discrimination and injustice.
• The campaign is called Jai Jagat, a Hindi phrase meaning victory of the world, where nobody wins against another country or community and everyone must win together.
• Drawing on Gandhi, he says there is enough for everyone's need but not for anybody's greed, and development must return to being need-based.
• He asks the audience to join the Jai Jagat campaign to make the world better for coming generations.

Chapters

1. 0:00Thanks for keeping Iqbal's memory alive
2. 1:23Children driven from land and into slums
3. 2:45Why the global campaign is being designed
4. 3:38Jai Jagat: victory of the whole world
5. 4:53Gandhi's vision and a call to join

Full transcript

0:00I also want to thank you for keeping the memory of Iqbal alive because keeping the Memory of Iqbal alive means keeping the struggles for justice of Iqbal alive.

0:34Så I thank you for doing that every year. Jag vill också tacka för att ni håller minnet av Iqbal vid liv. För att hålla minnet av Iqbal vid livet betyder att vi håller kampen levande. Jag tackar er för att göra detta varje år. And keeping the memory alive is also to say, look we learn from Iqbal that wherever there is injustice, we need to stand up against it. So it is not only keeping the memory but also Det är också deciding att därifrån i världen det finns ingestis, diskriminering, vi ska ställa mot diskriminering och ingestis.

1:23To keep my mind at life means that wherever it is still exists, we have to stand up against it, wherever it is on earth. So in the world where we are today, friends, whether we like it or not, there are millions of children like Iqbal being driven away from their land and resources. Millions of children who are driven into slums.

1:59Millions of children who are forced to live in inhuman conditions. So today, growing inspiration from Iqbal, let us say that wherever it may be, we will stand together in fighting injustice, especially injustice on children. Överallt i världen finns det barn som Ippal Som har drivits från sina länder, från sitt land Som har drivits in i slum And, however, there is injustice, we will stand together.

2:45So, I repeat that today, wherever the... So, I uprefer that, today, we stand here together, for that, wherever it is, we stand up against it together. Friends, we have come here. I have come here especially on the invitation of BLLF and there are many friends with me from different parts of the world among you. We have come to design a campaign, global campaign to deal with the discrimination and injustice and to see how the world can be made a peaceful place for us to live. So we are here for two days to discuss about this campaign and I will explain a bit about the campaign.

3:38We have come here on the invitation of BLLF. We are from many places over the world. We are here to design a campaign for freedom and freedom and I will tell you more about it. And this campaign is called Jai Jagat. Jai Jagat is a word, Hindi word. It says, victory of the world. It cannot be any more victory of one country against the other. It cannot be victory against one community against the other. If at all we win, we need to win together.

4:17How do we protect the planet together and in order to protect the planet together, how do we work together is the campaign and that campaign is being designed in this place and the discussion is going on. The campaign is called Jai Jai Gat and it means well-earned for all and a win to the whole world. It can't longer be countries against countries or communities against communities. We are going to work together and how we are going to work together to win this campaign.

4:53This is what we are discussing now and we are going to to present the campaign just now. This campaign is drawing inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi. See, Mahatma Gandhi says, there is enough for everyone's need. And there is not enough for anybody's greed. So Mahatma Gandhi is giving us a new vision for a new world. That a greed-based development model will destroy the planet.

5:25So we need to get back to a need-based development model. And that is the inspiration of this Jai Jagat campaign. Vi drar inspiration från Gandhi och ordspråket att det finns tillräckligt för allas behov, men inte tillräckligt för allas jyrighet. Jyrigheten idag är på att förstöra planeten och vi måste återgå till en ordning där behov styr och kommer i första hand. So while I thank you and congratulate you for all the good work that you are doing now, let me take this opportunity to request you to join this large global campaign called Jai Jagat and let us together make this world a better place for the coming generations.

6:14Thank you very much.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Rajagopal speech in Lidköping, Sweden.webm by Yann Forget (2017-04-22), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 3.0.

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.