{"id":71427,"date":"2026-02-10T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/articles\/bhagat-singh-for-today\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:21:47","slug":"bhagat-singh-for-today","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/articles\/bhagat-singh-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"BHAGAT SINGH FOR TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering Bhagat Singh on the 103rd birth anniversary of his

\n glorious and heroic life September 28th .When the entire country,

\n plagued as it is with the Hindutva brand of communalism in its

\n worst-ever ferocity and perfidy, is yet to overcome the trauma and the

\n judgment of the Ayodhya ironacally on the birth anniversary of the

\n great martyr and the horrendous communal carnage that rocked large

\n parts of this subcontinent thereafter, Bhagat Singh’s words are of

\n particular relevance for our nation and polity.

\n

\n In the backdrop of the environment obtaining in India today, it would

\n be most appropriate to study some of the passages of his Sampradayik

\n Dange aur Unka Elaj (Communal Riots and their Remedy) that came out in

\n print in the journal Kirti in 1927 written by S.Bhagat Singh himself.

\n It is no essay in academic flair, but it exudes Bhagat Singh’s deepest

\n human concern for the Indian people who were then, as now, suffering

\n due to senseless human killings in the name of religion.Here are a few

\n excerpts from the article:

\n

\n…The condition of India has now become extremely grave. The followers

\n of one religion have become suddenly sworn enemies of the followers of

\n the other religion. So much so, that to belong to one particular

\n religion is reason enough for becoming enemy of the other religion.

\n Such a feeling has gained currency.

\n

\n….If still someone harbours any doubts about the gravity of the

\n situation, one should look at the recent riots of Lahore to gauge and

\n determine the savagery and ferocity of the killings. …. How Muslims

\n have killed innocent Hindus and Sikhs and how Sikhs have been

\n unsparing in their killings, deploying their best capabilities. Such

\n brutal mutual killings have not been resorted to by the killers to

\n award punishment to someone found guilty of some crime, but for the

\n simple reason and for the fact that someone was either Hindu, Sikh or

\n Muslim. For Muslims, it has been enough to kill if someone was either

\n Hindu or Sikh and likewise to be a Muslim was sufficient reason for

\n his being killed.

\n

\n His deep anguish can be seen in the lines below:

\n

\n…When the situation has reached this aggravated stage, then God alone

\n knows what will happen to India. In view of the obtaining situation,

\n India’s future appears extremely bleak. These religions have wrought

\n havoc to India and one does not know when the scourge of such

\n horrendous communal riots will come to an end and India will be freed

\n from them—from such religious riots. …At the moment political leaders

\n of India are conducting themselves so shamelessly. Those very leaders,

\n who had sweared and vowed to liberate the country and had proclaimed

\n of shouldering the great responsibility for that purpose, never tiring

\n of talking about ‘common nationality’ and who had been vociferous in

\n declaring their faith in the attainment of “Swaraj”, so unflinchingly

\n and devotedly in the past, these very same leaders are now either

\n keeping mum with their heads bowed in shame or are swaying along with

\n the raging wind of blind religious bigotry. Besides the demagoguery

\n and ‘double-speak’ of these ‘lost leaders’, Bhagat Singh underlined

\n the supine subterfuges of the leadership in face of horrendous

\n communal criminality:

\n

\n…. Those amongst them, sitting on the fence silent in remorse and

\nshame, concealing their faces are not insignificant in numbers. …But

\n regarding those political leaders who have since joined and have

\n already found full convergence with the current of communal movement,

\n they are to be found in hundreds, if only one unravels the phenomenon

\n and digs a bit beneath the earth’s surface. Leaders (with a

\n conscience) who seek well-being, happiness and prosperity of all

\n people from their very heart are few and the tornado of communalism is

\n so wild and fierce that these few, well-meaning and good-intentioned

\n leaders are incapable of halting the process. Expressing his concern

\n he added :

\n

\n…. It appears as if the Indian political leadership has gone

\n completely bankrupt.

\n

\n Bhagat Singh’s worst fears have now come true, and the future of India

\n appears as bleak at the hands of its ‘bankrupt’ political leadership.

\n Shaheed Bhagat Singh and all the other martyrs did not sacrifice their

\n life for any particular caste creed or religion but for an

\n independent, secular and united India

\n

\n

\n Will our Doordarshan and Akashvani ever find time to portray this

\n charismatic youth, his life-drama, the drama of a man who,

\n nonetheless, was the heart-throb of millions and had nothing mystical

\n or magical about him?

\n

\n It was about time that Doordarshan changed its stance and started

\n projecting personalities who shaped India’s great destiny and are

\n relevant to the cause of our social progress. Why cannot a month-long

\n Bhagat Singh epic, his life-story, be put on the small screen, without

\n concealing the stark realism associated with him, so as to inspire the

\n common people to follow his footprints in the struggle for eradication

\n of communalism.

\n

\n What was Bhagat Singh’s own vision of the future? His Diary-Notes,

\n which begins on September 12, 1929, and contains 140 pages, with B. K.

\n Dutt’s signature dated July 1930, provides the contours of that

\n vision. Sunil Chopra, who found and scanned through it, has stated:

\n

\n Bhagat Singh had visualised that 15 years after their martyrdom, the

\n British will be forced to quit, but the government that would step in

\n will indulge in loot and plunder of people, vested interests will

\n resort to self-aggrandisment and gangsterism will get the upper hand.

\n“People will forget us,” he noted, “within 15 years,” and added: “Then

\n our memory will be revived and people will put our ideas to close

\n scrutiny and for reconstruction of a new social order working classes

\n and honest people will unite together and this organisation will

\n secure the fruits of labour to whom it belongs.”

\n

\n Perhaps it would not be a day too soon to revive his memory today.

\n Bhagat Singh’s immortal ideals beckon all those who can prove equal to

\n the task and are ready to test their mettle, as Bhagat Singh on his

\n own admission tried to test himself and again, on his own admission,

\n was not always successful.

\n

\n And nothing succeeds like success!

\n

\n ABHEY SINGH SANDHU

\n Nephew Of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

\n S\/o S.Kulbir Singh, younger brother of S.Bhagat Singh

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