Lal Salam
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Lal Salam (Hindi: लाल सलाम, Urdu: لال سلام; transl. "Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia. The phrase is a compound of lāl, meaning "red" in Hindustani, and salām, meaning "peace", a contraction of the Arabic phrase as-salāmu ʿalaykum, a Muslim greeting meaning "peace be upon you".
In popular culture
- Lal Salam (1990 film) is a film in the Malayalam language based in 1990 India, about the lives of three communists in Kerala, South India.
- Lal Salaam (2002 film), a Bollywood musical action drama film
- Lal Salaam (2024 film), a Tamil film
Further reading
- Ali, Kamran Asdar (2015). Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-940308-0.
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