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Bhagat Singh
A Youth Icon for All Times
Photo of Bhagat Singh (back row, fourth from right) at Lahore College Drama Club (1924).
“Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an
imperishable birth right of all. Labour is the real sustainer of society.”
- Bhagat Singh
Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh is one of India’s most revered
revolutionaries. It is not just a name of an ‘immortal martyr’, it is
an idea which ignited the spark of urge among Indian youth to
get free from the foreign oppression in the early twentieth century.
A revolutionary, a thinker, and an idealist, Bhagat Singh’s life was
short, but his ideas have outlived generations. His fearless patriotism
and burning desire for India’s independence transformed him from
a young man of barely twenty-three into an immortal symbol of
courage and conviction.
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