It was not merely Gandhi’s method of 'ahimsa' which got freedom for Bharat but also the policy of violence pursued by Chandra Shekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and other revolutionary freedom fighters
On his 116th birth anniversary, we remember Bhagat Singh, revolutionary freedom fighter who remains an icon for patriots across India. Here are five lesser-known facts about him.
Bhagat Singh was born on September 28, 1907, at Banga in Lyallpur district (now Pakistan) to Kishan Singh and Vidyavati. At the time of his birth, his father Kishan Singh, uncles Ajit and Swaran Singh.
Dr. Tariq Rahman reviews Dr. Ali Raza's Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India, and finds a lively, brilliantly told history of Indian leftists aspiring for a just world under colonial rule