Remembering Bhagat Singh

An excerpt from Bhagat Singh’s Jail dairy page 124

Aim of Life

Bhagat Singh wrote as follows : “The aim of life is no more to control mind, but to develop it harmoniously, not to achieve salvation hereafter, but to make the best use of it here below, and not to realize truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life ; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of the many; and spiritual democracy or universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity in the social, political and industrial life”
….. Bhagat Singh

Shaheed Bhagat singh was born on september 27th , 1907 in Punjab State of Pre Independent India. He fought for freedom against the colonial Bristish Rule.

While studying at the local D.A.V. Collage in Lahore, in 1916, young Bhagat Singh came into contact with some well-known political leaders like Lala Lajpat Rai and Ras Bihari Bose.

Moved by the incident of Human massacre in Jallianwala bag (Jallianwala Garden, Amritsar city, Punjab state of India) where , on April 13, 1919, British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The firing lasted about 10 minutes and 1650 rounds were fired, or 33 rounds per soldier and casualties at 1800.

On April 8, 1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Assembly Hall while the Assembly was in session. The bombs did not hurt anyone. After throwing the bombs, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt, deliberately courted arrest by refusing to run away from the scene.

Bhagat Singh and his associates Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged in the early hours of March 23, 1931.