WHAT A MARTYR!
Had Bhagat Singh been spared the death penalty --- for there were discrepancies in the Lahore Conspiracy Case as Mohammad Ali Jinnah as legislator had pointed out --- and had he lived on --- for he would have then again attempted dangerous revolutionary exploits for which he might have been convicted again and executed thereafter --- he would have been a serious challenge to the likes of Nehru and Netaji in national leadership in all probability, for mercurial he was and a born leader with sterling strength of character and conviction and a vision of social transformation far beyond his years. This, today, can only be a conjecture and no more than, perhaps, fanciful imagination of the born idealist and dreamer, but I truly wonder where Bhagat Singh's meteoric rise to political prominence could eventually have led him. Remember, he did not fight merely for political independence but, being a committed communist, he aspired for a total social revolution in the wake of freedom that would emancipate the masses from the thraldom of age-old tyranny by the privileged classes.
And all this maturity of thought from this intrepid inquilaabi (revolutionary) at such a young age when the blossoms of spring had not yet seen their fullest efflorescence and were awaiting the scented breeze to blow into them the thrill of mature blooming. Bhagat Singh died when he had barely lived and in his death he lives on in us forever.
P.S. : There was a time when it is reported that Bhagat Singh's popularity matched Mahatma Gandhi's and this was no mean achievement considering Gandhiji's mesmeric influence on the masses.
Written by Sugata Bose
Had Bhagat Singh been spared the death penalty --- for there were discrepancies in the Lahore Conspiracy Case as Mohammad Ali Jinnah as legislator had pointed out --- and had he lived on --- for he would have then again attempted dangerous revolutionary exploits for which he might have been convicted again and executed thereafter --- he would have been a serious challenge to the likes of Nehru and Netaji in national leadership in all probability, for mercurial he was and a born leader with sterling strength of character and conviction and a vision of social transformation far beyond his years. This, today, can only be a conjecture and no more than, perhaps, fanciful imagination of the born idealist and dreamer, but I truly wonder where Bhagat Singh's meteoric rise to political prominence could eventually have led him. Remember, he did not fight merely for political independence but, being a committed communist, he aspired for a total social revolution in the wake of freedom that would emancipate the masses from the thraldom of age-old tyranny by the privileged classes.
And all this maturity of thought from this intrepid inquilaabi (revolutionary) at such a young age when the blossoms of spring had not yet seen their fullest efflorescence and were awaiting the scented breeze to blow into them the thrill of mature blooming. Bhagat Singh died when he had barely lived and in his death he lives on in us forever.
P.S. : There was a time when it is reported that Bhagat Singh's popularity matched Mahatma Gandhi's and this was no mean achievement considering Gandhiji's mesmeric influence on the masses.
Written by Sugata Bose
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