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 Hindustani; salam means "peace" and is an Arabic word for a greeting.

In some cases the equivalent phrase Surkh Salam (Urdu: سرخ سلام‎) is used interchangeably.^{[citation needed]}

In popular culture[]

• Lal Salaam is the name of 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.

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.