FIGHT OF RIGHTS

तुम क्या जानो क्या होती है आजादी ?

क्या होता है खुले आसमाँ में उड़ना?

कैद हमें जंजीरो में करते हो तुम,

पर कतरते फिरते हो तुम ,

उड़ना सीखा है मैंने अपने अत्तीत से,

उड़ना सीखा है उन काली अँधेरी रातो में,

हां उस भगत से, हां उस गाँधी से,

कैद करते फिरते हो तुम। 

तो आखिर इन टूटे पंखो के उड़ान से इतना क्यों डरते हो तुम।। 

- N.K. Upadhyay  

Changes that impact the discourse of the future are well known as History, in a similar way Rights are not an overnight theory, its evolved every day every night. Fight for Rights are deeply rooted in history, when we look back in our history like the national movement of India, the American civil war, even in world wars every time we are fighting for our rights, then again the question is arises, "against whom we were fighting?". Indian National movement was against colonialism and fought for freedom and liberty. This behavior of resistance and protest generates a new concept for India and that one is democracy. American civil war was against Aristocrats and Supreme Race(whites) to get equal status and equality, which is a result Barack Obama and Kamal Harris as a Black President and Vice President of USA. World Wars were against all opponents, where each one was acting to protect their own rights and sovereignty, which in result generates new arena of international politics. 

Rights are always deeply rooted in the history of the fight, and each right was evolved from a history of resistance, so we can say that in a core resistance and fight is the one which is the base for all the rights we have today or in future.

"Right to protest" is the one we are talking about, Right to protest not even in the modern democracy is the tool of preservation, which preserves all the basic and fundamental rights of individual but it was there in every minute of evolving history of rights, From Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King.

In modern Democracy, the tools of rights evolved and went deeply into the different areas, like the Right to Privacy, Right to Protest, Right to clean and green environment, and many more, but in a real sense, it was there in history also, then why are these rights bothering now? 

My answer to these questions is "lack of collective demand", in modern times opinion and unity just disappeared and scattered, which leads to a lack of collective demand or necessity and more incline towards personal interest and benefits. if we compare this to the Indian National movement where Britishers played well to divide and rule by many methods like Morley Minto reform to Mountbaitan Plan, and even today that wound is not healed. Collective demand is the only way to claim your rights and achieve the goal, it is not necessary to know, against whom you are fighting either your own government or Britishers'. It is very necessary to know that you are fighting for your own Rights and You are ethically and morally correct to do so. As Hohfeldian Incidents of Privileges, Claim, Power, and Immunity well defined the molecular theory of Rights which indicates the well-established relationship between first order and second order, I draw attention to Second-order here, where the relation of power and immunity is a well-defined impact on first order(claim and privilege). Power always tries to shape others in their own frame but immunity is the way to disable that, and in this case, the Right to Protest is that Immunity that protects and immune your other rights.

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