"I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice."
Such was the magnificence of the great Shaheed Bhagat Singh. On his 113th birth anniversary today on 27th September, we present to a set dedicated to this unforgettable personality.
Q1. Society has to fight out this belief as well as was fought the idol worship and the narrow conception of religion. Similarly, when man tries to stand on his own legs and become a realist, he shall have to throw the faith aside, and to face manfully all the distress, trouble, in which the circumstances may throw him. That is exactly my state of affairs. It is not my vanity, my friends. It is my mode of thinking that has made me an atheist. I don't know whether in my case belief in God and offering of daily prayers which I consider to be most selfish and degraded act on the part of man, whether these prayers can prove to be helpful or they shall make my case worse still. I have read of atheists facing all troubles quite boldly; so am I trying to stand like a man with an erect head to the last; even on the gallows.
These is an excerpt from which famous essay written by Bhagat Singh while he was in jail?
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Q2. Being a kid, he never talked about toys or games. He used to speak about driving out Britishers from India.
When the Jalianwala Bagh incident occurred, Bhagat Singh was in school. He immediately left the school and went straight to the place of the tragedy. What was his daily ritual later on to remember this dark day and keep his spirit of vengeance alive?
View AnswerQ3. Singh, 23, was hanged by British rulers on March 23, 1931 in Lahore, after being tried under charges for hatching a conspiracy against the colonial government. The case was filed against Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru for allegedly killing British police officer John P Saunders.
He was sentenced to be hanged on 24 March 1931, but it was brought forward by 11 hours to 23 March 1931 at 7:30 p.m.
Why was this done?
View AnswerQ4. Hussainiwala is a village in Firozpur district in Punjab state, India. It lies near the banks of the Sutlej river. The village is on the border with Pakistan, opposite the Pakistani village of Ganda Singh Wala. In the 1960s, the Indian government exchanged 12 villages in Punjab with the Pakistani government in return for the village Hussainiwala in Punjab province in Pakistan.
What prompted the Indian government to do so?
View AnswerQ5. On December 9, 1893, a French anarchist named Auguste Vaillant made a sensational attempt to avenge the execution of Ravachol, a fellow anarchist. His attempt injured several people and he was arrested and sentenced to death. Vaillant defended his actions during the trial, maintaining that he merely wanted to wake up the privileged classes. How did Vaillant's actions and his words come back into the lime light some 36 years later ?
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