The man who shook the British crown was born 114 years ago today.
His slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' is an anti-national word today. Bhagat Singh once beautifully explained the meaning of Inquilab Zindabad to a journalist.
Bhagat Singh explains the meaning he tried to convey by the phrase 'Inquilab Zindabad' to the editor of the Modern Review.
- The Tribune (December 24, 1929)
Bhagat Singh was planning to bring a mass uprising in the Indian society along lines of the October revolution which happened in Russia.
Naujawan Bharat Sabha (NBS) was a left-wing association founded by Bhagat Singh. Mahavir Singh (died in Andaman Jail) was a member of NBS.
The British Press called Bhagat Singh the Red Terror. On January 21st 1930, in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, he appeared in the court wearing red scarves. He was reading Lenin's biography during his last hours.
April 1929 : A 22 year old Marxist and Rationalist, possessing communist literature, threw bombs over the empty seats in the Central Assembly and stayed there to get arrested, so that the court case became a stage to voice his cause.
Imagine if Bhagat Singh had been alive today.
Today, everyone wants the legacy of Bhagat Singh but no one wants to read his 'Why I am an Atheist'. No one understands his Leftist principles.
And the RW forces in the largest democracy of the world require the crutches of a Marxist revolutionary to stand straight.