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23-31 March:ShadatSapatah From Bhagat Singh to Com. Chandrashekahar...
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the legacy lives on... .
On 23 March: Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) .
and Revolutionary Poet Paash(1988) .
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Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts .
[ On Marcll22, the SecondLahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were lockedup bz Ward Number 14 (near condemned ers.
cells), sent a slip to Blzagat Sluglt askillg iflze would like to live. This letter was In reply to tilat slip. 1March 22, 1931 The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. l do not want to conceal it. But it is conditional. r don't :want to live as a late prisoner or under restrictions. My name has become a symbol ofIndian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices ofthe e to .
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revolutionary party have eJevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise ifI live... md Yes, one thing pricks me even today. My heart nurtured some ambitions for doing something for humanity and for my country. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part ofthose ambitions. If I live I might perhaps get a vechance to fulfill them. Ifever it carne to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only. 0 . I am proud ofmyself these days and I am anxiously waiting for the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon .
As ShahadatSaptah begins, we commemorate the heroic lives of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who have 0 b~come symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash 3martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31 March,1997-e. who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last. We remember the courage of '1-the count1ess women and men of our country who overcame their fears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause of true e independence, and who gave birth to dreams of equality that still live on. In t he life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead. In the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning. ~".
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A new meaning to patriotism .
Bhagat Singh's political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent people were ' surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Over time, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grew also in ;)" .
courage and confidence. )-Is .
Bhagat Singh as remembered by Ajoy Ghosh (later General Secretary of the CPI) .
In 1925 like a bolt from the blue came the Kakori arrests. Most of our leaders were in prison within a few .
weeks... One day in 1928. I was surprised when a young man walked into my room and greeted me. It was .
Bhagat Singh but not the Bhagat Singh that I had met two years before. Tall and magnificently proportioned, ·0 .
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with a keen, intelligent face and gleaming eyes, he looked a different man altogether. And as he talked I of .
realized that he had grown not merely in years. He was now, together with Chandra Shekhar Az.ad, the leader .
ofour party. He explained to me the changes that had been made in our program and organizational structure. .nd .
We were henceforth the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association with a sociali st state !n India as our .
avowed objective. We talked the whole night and as we went out for a stroll when the first streaks of red were 1ory.
appearing in the grey sky, it seemed to me that a new era was dawning for our party. We knew what we .
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Nith.
wanted and we knew how to reach our goal. .
are f Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of Vande the r,Mataram was replaced by the slogan of revolution -lnqullab Zindabad-which he was among the first to proclaim. At the centre of his definition of patriotism were the people of the country. Love for the country became defined as love for its --. t people. He keenly followed the struggles of peasants and workers and insisted that without establishing the dominance of e workers and peasants, the national movement would not bring true independence fo r India. The capitalists, the traders, the ;teist princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends of Gandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that they could only be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian Independence. j also .
fr.,The nature of the ruling classes .
:ed byWhile appreciating the mass mobilization that came with the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the class char-1-.
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acter of the Congress and warned that Gandhi's politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize the work-.
ing class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the 'brown sahibs' that would merely replace the imperialist serva-J '; .
rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers and peasants, .
trna in.
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would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in orderto challenge imperialism we must demolish the domestic basis of --foreign rule-feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist domination. 1umphf-.
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Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades were unafraid and raised the battle cry: Jnquilab Zindabad!.
P.T.O. > \ .
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IIIQ .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2011 ID-6273
.
m.
20.3 The t wast .
. .
-.
.
' .
...... ';...
.
~. ,_.
I .
f'·· .
~.
~1 .
23-31 March:ShadatSapatah From Bhagat Singh to Com. Chandrashekahar...
mFrn .
the legacy lives on... .
On 23 March: Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) .
and Revolutionary Poet Paash(1988) .
~er:.
Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts .
[ On Marcll22, the SecondLahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were lockedup bz Ward Number 14 (near condemned ers.
cells), sent a slip to Blzagat Sluglt askillg iflze would like to live. This letter was In reply to tilat slip. 1March 22, 1931 The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. l do not want to conceal it. But it is conditional. r don't :want to live as a late prisoner or under restrictions. My name has become a symbol ofIndian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices ofthe e to .
~ .
revolutionary party have eJevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise ifI live... md Yes, one thing pricks me even today. My heart nurtured some ambitions for doing something for humanity and for my country. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part ofthose ambitions. If I live I might perhaps get a vechance to fulfill them. Ifever it carne to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only. 0 . I am proud ofmyself these days and I am anxiously waiting for the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon .
As ShahadatSaptah begins, we commemorate the heroic lives of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who have 0 b~come symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash 3martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31 March,1997-e. who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last. We remember the courage of '1-the count1ess women and men of our country who overcame their fears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause of true e independence, and who gave birth to dreams of equality that still live on. In t he life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead. In the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning. ~".
'.
A new meaning to patriotism .
Bhagat Singh's political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent people were ' surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Over time, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grew also in ;)" .
courage and confidence. )-Is .
Bhagat Singh as remembered by Ajoy Ghosh (later General Secretary of the CPI) .
In 1925 like a bolt from the blue came the Kakori arrests. Most of our leaders were in prison within a few .
weeks... One day in 1928. I was surprised when a young man walked into my room and greeted me. It was .
Bhagat Singh but not the Bhagat Singh that I had met two years before. Tall and magnificently proportioned, ·0 .
.
.!.!1 .
with a keen, intelligent face and gleaming eyes, he looked a different man altogether. And as he talked I of .
realized that he had grown not merely in years. He was now, together with Chandra Shekhar Az.ad, the leader .
ofour party. He explained to me the changes that had been made in our program and organizational structure. .nd .
We were henceforth the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association with a sociali st state !n India as our .
avowed objective. We talked the whole night and as we went out for a stroll when the first streaks of red were 1ory.
appearing in the grey sky, it seemed to me that a new era was dawning for our party. We knew what we .
.
Nith.
wanted and we knew how to reach our goal. .
are f Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of Vande the r,Mataram was replaced by the slogan of revolution -lnqullab Zindabad-which he was among the first to proclaim. At the centre of his definition of patriotism were the people of the country. Love for the country became defined as love for its --. t people. He keenly followed the struggles of peasants and workers and insisted that without establishing the dominance of e workers and peasants, the national movement would not bring true independence fo r India. The capitalists, the traders, the ;teist princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends of Gandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that they could only be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian Independence. j also .
fr.,The nature of the ruling classes .
:ed byWhile appreciating the mass mobilization that came with the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the class char-1-.
:0.
acter of the Congress and warned that Gandhi's politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize the work-.
ing class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the 'brown sahibs' that would merely replace the imperialist serva-J '; .
rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers and peasants, .
trna in.
.
would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in orderto challenge imperialism we must demolish the domestic basis of --foreign rule-feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist domination. 1umphf-.
~ .
Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades were unafraid and raised the battle cry: Jnquilab Zindabad!.
P.T.O. > \ .
... .
IIIQ .
.