Martyrs' Chowk

Till now I have failed to fully know the expanse Hutatma Chowk. Every day my journey stops somewhere around that Chowk and starts from there as I'm heading home. In fact, people are more familiar in pointing out Flora Fountain and recognize the area better with that Victorian structure. Tourists look for the latter's picture and profile in their travelogues.
Had it not been for this May Day, Hutatma Chowk might have become obsolete from local history.
It was in 1960, when Saurashtra segregated into the present two economic giants Gujurat and Maharashtra, erstwhile known as the State of Bombay. It was a this Chowk where some thousand protest demonstrators died from police firings. Their demand was the creation of a separate state of Bombay and so here we are after 50 years and I'm writing this blog.
Martyrs' Chowk was the symbol of this creation. There have been and will be many protests regarding many demands in due course of time, but the underlying truth is- Some Die so that others Live.