Shashikant Singh
Every year the 23 rd of March comes in our calendar not only to remember this great young freedom fighter but also to study and understand his actions and thoughts deeply. Today when we are facing serious corruption at every level in our country, in politics, society, economic and in policy making it is the right time to follow his path by deep understanding and inspiration.
It is the fact that till date after the achievement of Independence, 38 % of Indian population is living below poverty line, which means that every fourth Indian is facing hunger and malnutrition but we are being given an eye wash that our people abroad are reflecting India's prosperity by working in NASA to the tune of 38%, our scientists comprise of 12% of all American scientists, likewise there are Doctors, Industrialists, Academicians, Educationists, Musicians, Painters, Dancers, Yoga Gurus, Astronauts and cosmonauts. And the other side is that 70% of Indians are lying in the backyards of our cosmopolitans, metropolis and semi-metropolis, big and small towns, and the villages without any amenities and facilities, people going hungry in general, large number of farmers committing suicide, children without education and food, old people without any healthcare and medicine, no potable water, no shelter, no approach road in the villages, no drainage, no electricity, no source of livelihood for the masses. The political system should be ashamed of it's not being able to retain the brain drain from off it's shores, the harsh realities are that nothing adds any colorful feathers to the cap of this system of falsehood.
Today the world economic crisis and its vast impact on the world and in our country has resulted in the crumbling down of all the tall promises of our politicians of large number of employments and building of infrastructures for better futures of our youths and the people living below poverty line who are being exploited at every level. It has proved that the Imperialistic approach of development can only crush the humanity and humanistic democratic approach. Bhagat Singh once told during the period of his imprisonment 'that India will gain freedom soon after my death but that Independence will be a transfer of power from the white English men to the brown English men and political system of the British will not change but will go in the hands of brown English men and the struggle for equality will continue……………….till the power will go in the hands of the toiling masses. Still, after the Independence we can see that the political system of India has bent down before the imperialistic power, mortgaging its pride and sovereignty of it's all past.
The Great warrior against imperialism Shaheed Bhagat Singh was one of the most influential revolutionary of Indian Independence movement. He was born on 28 September 1907. Only at age of 23 he sacrificed his life for the sake of country and to make the country Independent. He was hanged to death by British Rule on 23 march, 1931. In his teenage years, Bhagat Singh started studying at the National College in Lahore but ran away from home to escape early marriage. He became a member of the organization Naujawan Bharat Sabha. In this organization, Singh and his fellow revolutionaries grew popular amongst the youth. He also joined Hindustan Republic Association, which was headed by Ram Prasad Bismil and Asfaqulla Khan. He wrote for and edited Urdu and Punjabi newspapers published from Amritser.
Bhagat Singh gave away his life with the intention of making India Independent. He dreamt for socialism. Where there will be no differences among the people in the name of caste, religion and region.
Once he told, "I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me", Bhagat Singh was a great reader, thinker and philosopher. During the period of jail, he was not allowed to read and write. However, after long hunger strike he got the right of reading and writing. Thus, he maintained a notebook of 404 pages and kept notes and quotes from the books he read. The diary was precious one as he made numerous notes relating to the quotations and popular sayings of various people whose views he supported, like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Political thought of Bhagat Singh is evolved gradually from Gandhian nationalism to revolutionary Marxism. He believed that the rich would only get richer and the poor would only get poorer in the case if India did not adopt the socialistic approach. To him " the aim of life is no more to control mind, but to develop it harmoniously, not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below, and not to realize truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the dignity of the few but on the enrichment of democracy or universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity in social, economic, political and but like a meteor, Bhagat Singh appeared in the political sky for a brief period and before he was hanged to death , he became a great hope of millions of eyes and the symbol of the spirit and aspiration of a new India, free India, rich India! This dream of our people has not materialized until today because of the failed political system, as foretold by Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
Bhagat Singh should be read in context to the present political scenario with voices raised in struggle by farmers, labourers, working classes, students and youths, the slogan, "Inquilab Zindabad", raised by Bhagat Singh, reverberates the sky even today, he continues to live in this slogan and reminds us of continued struggle against the imperialistic political system……………………….
Shashikant.
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