Martyrs` Day: Bhagat Singh’s letter on suicide will introduce you to the stark realities of death

Delhi | Friday | 23rd March, 2018

Summary:

Singh wrote a number of letters to the British Authority and his friends.

Spending two years in jail, waiting to be executed, he kept a notebook full of notes and jottings from what he was reading.

Read what Bhagat Singh had to say about suicide.

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Bhagat Singh was a revolution in himself.

With the slogan of ‘Inkalab zindabad’, he ignited the much needed fire in the hearts of the youth to bring freedom to the motherland.

Atrocities, challenges and even death couldn’t derail him from his goal.

For he was a man of substance, who fought the invaders and stood in front of death, greeting it like an old friend.

On 23rd March, Singh was executed with his friends Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru at a mere of age 23.

The Shaheed Diwas, is a reminder of the two major incidents that revolutionaries glorify in a soaring order.

Shooting British police officer John Saunders in Lahore and discharging two bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, were the two were defining moments in the life of Singh and Indian freedom struggle.

Singh wrote a number of letters to the British Authority and his friends.