This is HD!! (What I Will Be Known As From Now On)
I Had Gotten Some Homework Recently From My School And I Had To Make Some Type Of Memorial For Shaheed Bhagat Singh, So I Chose A Blog. Hopefully No-one Else Thought Of This Idea Too!!
The Blog Had To Be About Someone Who Has Made A Difference, Someone Who's Work And Effort Has Effected Society Today, How We Remember These People And The Work They Did...I Chose Bhagat Singh Because He Died For His Country, He Died For Freedom. Hardly Anyone Remembers Him, Hardly Anyone Knows Of Him. I Was Lucky That My Mom Spoke About Him, His Actions, His Beliefs. But, No-one Else Knows, After He Gave Up His Life For Freedom, For Society, For The People Of His Country, No-one Remembers...
23rd March 1931 was the death anniversay of one of the most heroic figures of the Indian Freedom Movement. Only a few people remembered it though, forget the rest of India, even the children of his own village where he was born, do not know anything about him!
And to think that the young man, Bhagat Singh, gave up his life for the ideal of a free and better India.
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| Shaheed Bhagat Singh |
Bhagat Singh was born on 27th September 1907, in Khatkar Kalan, Punjab in British India. His grandfather, Arjan Singh, father Kishan Singh and Uncle Ajit Singh, were all active in the freedom struggle.
While studying at the local D.A.V School in Lahore, in 1916, young Bhagat Singh came into contact with some well-known political leaders such as; Lala Lajpat Rai and Ras Bihari Bose.
In response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for non-cooperation against the British Rule in 1921, Bhagat Singh left his school and joined the National College newly opened in Lahore. At this college, which was a centre of revolutionary activities. he also came into contact with revolutionaries like Bhagwati Charan, Sukhdev and others. He became a member of the Hindustan Republican Association formed by the revolutionaries of Uttar Pradesh and was intiated into their firebrand activites.
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| Mahatma Gandhi |
The revolutionaries became known as terrorists by the British government. They believed that given the unjust nature of British Rule, it was legitimate on their part to use violence as a weapon to overthrow the foreigners. So they used bombs and guns against the British and robbed establishments belonging to the British.
Their ideas differed from the Gandian idea of a freedom movement based on non-violence or ahimsa. Gandhi's ideas went on to become more prominent as the Indian Freedom Movement progressed.
But it is not the bold militant-type figure that Bhagat Singh is remembered by. He was also a thinker who was steeped in the best traditions of socialistic thought, the theory that advocated collective or state ownership of the means of production land, labour and capital. This is borne out in the numerous letters, pamphlets and articles that he wrote in the course of a short but turbulent life.
In a letter to an Indian publication, The Tribune of 24th December 1929, Bhagat Singh explained the meaning he and fellow socialists tried to convey by the phrase, Long Live Revolution. He wrote that by revolution, they did not mean violence, as "the spirit, the longing for a change for the better"
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| Lala Lajpat Rai |
Since people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to fear the very idea of change, they needed to be roused from their lethargy and the revolutionary spirit had to be instilled in them.
A brutal attack by the police on veteran freedom fighter, Lala Lajpat Rai at an anti-British procession caused his death on 17th November 1928 in Lahore. Bhagat Singh was determined to avenge Lajpat Rai's death by shooting the British Official responsible for the killing, Deputy Inspector General Scott. He shot down Assistant Superintendent Saunders instead, mistaking him for Scott.
Then he made a dramatic escape from Lahore to Calcutta, from there to Agra, where he established a bomb factory.
The British government responded to the act by imposing severe measure like the Trades Disputes Bill.
Bhagat Singh threw bombs at the passing of the Bill, in the Central Assembly Hall while the assembly was in session, to protest against the passing. The bombs did not harm anyone but the noise was loud enough to wake up an enslaved nation from a deep sleep. After throwing the bombs, Bhagat Singh and his friend delibrately courted arrest by refusing to run away from the scene. During his trial, Bhagat Singh refused to employ any defence council.
In jail, he went on a hunger strike to protest the Inhuman treatment of fellow-political prisoners by jail authorities.
Along with fellow comrades, Sukhdev and Raj Guru, he received the death sentence for his terrostic activities by a special tribunal on 7th October 1930.
Despite great popular pressure and numeroud appeals by political leaders of India, Bhagat Singh and his associates were hanged in the early hours of 23rd March 1931.
Their bodies were cremated on the bank of the Sutlej in Ferozepur. Bhagat Singh was just 23 at that time. Old timers say that in many places, not a single hearth fire burned that day...
The last paragraph of the leaflet that he distrubuted (and wrote) in the Assembly Hall said. "We are sorry that we who attach such great sanctity to human life, we who dream of a very glorious future when man will be enjoying perfect peace and full liberty, have been forced to shed human blood. But sacrifice of individuals at the altar of the revolution will bring freedom to all, rendering exploitation of man by man impossible. Inquilaab Zindaabad (Long live the revolution)."
There was a time when the mentioning of the name of Bhagat Singh stirred the passions of most Indians. Today, the name evokes little emotion.
The method of remembering him has become mechanical. The day Bhagat Singh was hanged is observed as Martyr's Day, when the chief minister of Punjab makes a trip for a memorial function in Bhagat Singh's memory.
Bhagat Singh continues to be martyred by the very people of the country whose freedom he fought for.
I Am Very Proud To Be From Punjab, I'm Proud To Be From The State Of Which Bhagat Singh Was Born.
I'm Proud That He Is Of My Religion & Thankful For Sacrificing His Life For The Better Future Of India.
I'm Proud Of Bhagat Singh.
