Bhagat Singh in jail at the age of 20
His uninfluenced ideals, radical ideas, strong conviction, his strategy for the freedom struggle and the fore-thinking about independent India's future definitely makes it hard for me to believe that he was only 23 when he was executed. But,not before he had implanted an everlasting source of inspiration and laid a path for the youth of the country to follow in decades to come.
Even today, while reading his manuscripts one can truly feel his powerful ideas seeping into the mind and questioning our roles as citizens of India and the world.
Power of an individual and his ideas are best expressed in Bhagat's own words:
"It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled while the ideas survived."
Bhagat Singh was a revolutionary who will always be called the "Think Tank of Indian Freedom Struggle". He sacrificed his life not just for the freedom struggle of India, but to become a source of inspiration to all the young minds who would rise in the free India he dreamt of, in the decades to come.
PS: All the manuscripts written by Bhagat can be found at this link
Long Live Bhagath Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev.
ReplyDeleteWithin a small age of 23, it is really astonishing to find the amount of readings, Writings Bhagath Singh had done in between his relentless Radical life.
Qouting his words from his book - Why I am an Atheist -
"Without any selfish motive of getting any reward here or in the hereafter, quite disinterestedly have I devoted my life to the cause of freedom. I could not act otherwise. The day shall usher in a new era of liberty when a large number of men and women, taking courage from the idea of serving humanity and liberating them from sufferings and distress, decide that there is no alternative before them except devoting their lives for this cause. They will wage a war against their oppressors, tyrants or exploiters, not to become kings, or to gain any reward here or in the next birth or after death in paradise; but to cast off the yoke of slavery, to establish liberty and peace they will tread this perilous, but glorious path."