Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Bhagat singh and the revolution

Found this nice article on this site. Have been thinking about bhagat singh since rang de basanti especially about his young age. I am sure the age of 23 in 1930 is not comparable to a youngster of 23 in 2006. I mean people would often have kids going to school by that age though bhagat singh did not marry (my grandma was a mother at age 16).

I did not know of bhagat singh's communistic leanings though and the article was extremely educative. If bhagat singh would have been successful in igniting a communist movement what would have happened? The most impressive part of bhagat singh's vision is his thinking of what kind of a country we should have rather than just have a narrow objective of throwing out the british. Although I respect so many of the freedom fighters but we have had only one hero - bhagat singh.