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issued an ordinance setting up that he was an advocate of justice
a special tribunal, which denied and equality. He extensively
the accused the right to appeal. wrote while spending the last

On March 23, 1931, Bhagat two years of his life in prison.
Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev There, his thoughts took on even
embraced death at Lahore greater depth. His ‘Jail Notebook’
Central Jail, shouting ‘Inquilab reveals an extraordinary
Zindabad! (Live long the mind, one that grappled with
revolution!).’ For Bhagat Singh, questions of socialism, religion,

dying for the nation was not a justice, poverty and revolution.
tragedy, but a celebration and His essay ‘Why I Am an Atheist’
an ultimate expression of love reflected his intellectual
for his motherland. The song honesty and rejection of blind
‘Mera Rang De Basanti Chola,’ faith. He wrote persuasively

associated with his march to about the dignity of labour,
the gallows and immortalised the futility of suicide, and the
his spirit. duty of a revolutionary to live
Bhagat Singh’s writings show and suffer for his cause. He

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