10 things you didnt know about Bhagat Singh inclakshmi Started The Discussion: Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh was hanged to death on March 23, 1931. Considered as one of the most important revolutionaries of freedom movement, March 23 is marked as his martyrdom day. Here are 10 lesser known facts about the man who inspired hundreds and thousands of youths to join India's freedom struggle.1. Singh was a great actor in college and took part in several plays. His acting in 'Rana Pratap', 'Samrat Chandragupta' and 'Bharata-durdasha' earned him praise from his teachers and classmates. 2. The day after the Jalianwala Bagh incident, Singh slipped away from school, went straight to the place of the tragedy and collected a bottle of mud wet with blood of Indians. He was 12 at the time. He used to worship the bottle every day.
10 things you didnt know about Bhagat Singh inclakshmi Started
The Discussion:
Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh was hanged to death on March
23, 1931. Considered as one of the most important revolutionaries
of freedom movement, March 23 is marked as his martyrdom day. Here
are 10 lesser known facts about the man who inspired hundreds and
thousands of youths to join India's freedom struggle.1. Singh was a
great actor in college and took part in several plays. His acting
in 'Rana Pratap', 'Samrat Chandragupta' and 'Bharata-durdasha'
earned him praise from his teachers and classmates.2. The day after
the Jalianwala Bagh incident, Singh slipped away from school, went
straight to the place of the tragedy and collected a bottle of mud
wet with blood of Indians. He was 12 at the time. He used to
worship the bottle every day.
3. As a child, Singh often spoke of growing guns in the fields
so that he could fight the British.
4. He ran away from home to escape an early marriage. Even at
the age of eight he told his classmates "is marriage a big
achievement? Anybody can marry. But I will drive the British out of
India."5. The October revolution led by Lenin attracted Bhagat
Singh and he started to read literature about socialism and
socialist revolution at an early age.6. Singh said: They may kill
me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they
will not be able to crush my spirit. This was to be quoted many
times over by revolutionaries after Singhs death.7. The bombs
Bhagat Singh and his associates threw in the Central Assembly in
Delhi were made from low grade explosives. They were lobbed away
from people in the corridors of the building and were meant only to
startle and not harm. The British investigation into the incident
and forensics report also confirmed this.8. During his stay in
prison in 1930, Bhagat Singh coined the word political prisoner and
demanded he and his comrades be given basic amenities that even
British looters and goons in the jail were entitled to. 9. He
coined the phrase 'Inquilab Zindabad' that became the slogan of the
Indias armed freedom struggle.10. Singh was hanged an hour ahead of
the official time when the death sentence was to be commuted and
was secretly cremated on the banks of the river Sutlej by jail
authorities. However, thousands of people on hearing the news
gathered at the spot and took out a procession with his ashes.
