Lal Salam

Lal Salam (transl. "Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia. The word lal means "red" in Hindi; salam means "peace" in Arabic.

In popular culture

• Lal Salam (1990 film) is a film based in 1990 India in the Malayalam language. It is based on the lives of three actual communists in Kerala, South India: Mohanlal as Varghese Vaidyan, Murali as T. V. Thomas, and Smt K. R. Gowri Amma.
• Lal Salaam (2002 film), a Bollywood musical action drama film
• Lal Salaam (upcoming film), directed by Aishwarya Rajinikanth

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.