INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT : BHAGAT SINGH PART 1

INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT : BHAGAT SINGH PART 1

Parag Shah of Global Mavericks in his video magazines presents clips of RANG DE BASANTI a production/distribution UTV starring Aamir Khan and many British stage artists. These movie clips depict the Indian Freedom Struggle against British Imperialism through the endevours of one of many India's heros "Bhagat Singh" and his band of freedom fighters. UTV had done an excellent job and won the film awards and the International festival in Kalau Lampur Malaysia and had nominations in canes. It was my privalage to witness the awards and meeting people connected with this vast endevour in Mumbai.

All persons who undertook this wonderful political movie on Indian history has done a wonderful job.

Hats off for the entire team involved with this wonderful motion picture.
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INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT : STORY OF BHAGHAT SINGH - PART 2

INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT : STORY OF BHAGHAT SINGH - PART 2

INDIAN HISTORY PART 2

Parag Shah of Global Mavericks in his video magazines presents clips of RANG DE BASANTI a production/distribution UTV starring Aamir Khan and many British stage artists. These movie clips depict the Indian Freedom Struggle against British Imperialism through the endevours of one of many India's heros "Bhagat Singh" and his band of freedom fighters. UTV had done an excellent job and won the film awards and the International festival in Kalau Lampur Malaysia and had nominations in canes. It was my privalage to witness the awards and meeting people connected with this vast endevour in Mumbai.

All persons who undertook this wonderful political movie on Indian history has done a wonderful job.

Hats off for the entire team involved with this wonderful motion picture.

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Shaheed Bhagatsingh

At the age of 23, if anyone was smiling just before he was being hanged to death, it was Shaheed Bhagat Singh. He was born September 27, 1907 in the village Banga of Layalpur to Mata Vidyavati and Sardar Kishan Singh. His uncle, Sardar Ajit Singh, as well as his father, were great freedom fighters, so Bhagat Singh grew up in a patriotic atmosphere. Ajit Singh established the Indian Patriots' Association, along with Syed Haidar Raza, to organize the peasants against the Chenab Canal Colony Bill. He also established the secret organization, the Bharat Mata Society. At an early age, Bhagat Singh started dreaming of uprooting the British empire. Never afraid of fighting during his childhood, he thought of "growing guns in the fields," so that he could fight against the British. The Ghadar Movement left a deep imprint on his mind. Kartar Sing Sarabha, hanged at the age of 19, became his hero. The massacre at Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919 drove him to go to Amritsar, where he kissed the earth sanctified by the martyrs' blood and brought back home a little of the soaked soil. He studied in the D.A.V. School in Lahore. At the age of 16, he used to wonder why so many Indians could not drive away these fistful of invaders.

In search of revolutionary groups and ideas, he met Sukhdev and Rajguru. Bhagat Singh, along with the help of Chandrashekhar Azad, formed the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA). The aim of this Indian revolutionary movement was now defined as not only to make India independent, but also to create "a socialist India."

During the Simon Commission, Sher-e-Punjab Lala Lajpat Rai was wounded and died later. To avenge his death, Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Mr. Saunders (one of the deputy officers in connection with the Simon Commission).


When the British government promulgated the two bills "Trade Union Dispute Bill" and "Public Safety Bill" which Bhagat Singh and his party thought were Black Laws aimed at curbing citizens' freedom and civil liberties, they decided to oppose these bills by throwing a bomb in the Central Assembly Hall (which is now Lok Sabha). However, things changed, and the Britishers arrested Bhagat Singh and his friends on April 8, 1929.
He and his friends wanted to be shot dead, since they were termed as prisoners of war. Their request was not fulfilled, and on March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru, and Sukhdev were hanged to death.
This man's only mission in life was to see his country free from British rule. He did his best and when he was being led to the gallows, he was satisfied that he had lived up to his principles, irrespective of the consequences. The only thing that made him sad was that he couldn't do more for his country.

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Shahid-e-Azam Bhagat Singh

Shahid-e-Azam Bhagat Singh
(1907-1931)
"Why I am An Atheist"

Bhagat Singh points out in his article "Why I am an Atheist" that it is not easy to live the life of a reasoning person. It is easy to take consolation or relief from blind faith. But it is our duty to try ceaselessly to live the life of reason. And that is why Bhagat Singh asserts at the end of the essay that by proclaiming himself an athiest and a realist (materialist) he was "trying to stand like a man with an erect head to the last; even on the gallows".


Bhagat Singh was not the first of the many young Indians who sacrificed their lives at the altar of Indian freedom; others too kissed the noose and embraced the gallows with a defiant cry of Inkalab Zindabad! on their lips. We revere the memory of each one of these martyrs. Bhagat Singh should primarily be studied as a political figure. It should be noted that as early as the beginning of 1928, when he was just entering his twenties, he and his comrade, Bhagwati Charan Vohra, very correctly visualised the future course of political development in India-some sort of Round Table Conference; a compromise between the British and the Congress leaders; a gradual merging of a section of Indian capital with British capital, the congress leadership becoming the spokesmen for this section of capitalists; They also asserted that some of the then champions of the freedom strugglewould, in due course, become the champions of Indo- British 'cooperation' and betray the cause of national freedom. After that, they said, task of leading and carrying forward the freedom struggle would fall to the workers and peasants, to the common people, led by the proletariat and a party based on the messes and relying on the teaching of Marx. All these points amply emerge from the letters and documents written by Bhagat Singh and especially from the Manifesto of the Naujwan Bhagat Sabha which was drafted mainly by him and Bhagwati Charan.

It is in this that Bhagat Singh differed from the earlier revolutionary martyrs; it is in this that he rose higher than many of the political leaders of his time and in this lay his greatness. It is true that Bhagat Singh was not a Marxist in the full sense of the term. But it is also true that he had come very near Marxism towards the end of his days. In one of his letters to Sukh Dev, he wrote: " You and I may not live but our people will survive. The cause of Marxism and Communism is sure to win." Bhagat Singh was link between the Revolutionaries of the past and the communist movement of today. This is the perspective of this short study
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