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Topic: Bhagat Singh

Best way to celebrate Bhagat Singh—rescue his memory from meeting the fate of Gandhi, Nehru

Yogendra Yadav - 23 March, 2022

Bhagat Singh faces the ominous prospect of turning into an empty signifier, a symbol without substance, just a basanti pagri worn by anyone for anything.

Message from Bhagat Singh’s ‘pind’ as Bhagwant Mann arrives for oath: Follow him or end up in bin

+TFP Shubhangi Misra - 16 March, 2022

Bhagwant Mann has chosen Bhagat Singh’s ancestral village Khatkar Kalan to take oath as Punjab CM, but residents expect more than optics when it comes to the revolutionary’s legacy.

Eyeing national role, why AAP has made Bhagat Singh’s legacy the centerpiece of its politics

Abhishek Dey - 13 March, 2022

The freedom fighter's legacy does not polarise voters and his popularity among all sections gives an advantage to the AAP — which at one point was more Gandhian than anything else.

SubscriberWrites: You can idolize both Bhagat Singh, and Gandhi. There is no need for ‘either or’

Sourabh Bansal - 5 February, 2022

They had different philosophies and methods, but a shared vision and life’s purpose- the dream of independent India, writes Sourabh Bansal.

No politicians, only photos of Ambedkar & Bhagat Singh in Delhi govt offices, Kejriwal says

PTI - 25 January, 2022

Delhi CM Kejriwal said the AAP govt will function on the principles of these two freedom fighters and offices won't have pictures even of the chief minister.

Sardar Udham opens a new, rarely told chapter on the Independence struggle

Amogh Rohmetra - 17 October, 2021

Indians have seen the Independence movement in cinema from the eyes of Gandhis, Nehrus and Patels. Sardar Udham offers a rare peek into a rebellion led by Bhagat Singh’s HSRA.

Premdatta Varma, Bhagat Singh’s co-accused and India’s lesser-known freedom fighter

Chaman Lal - 19 September, 2021

Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav should be the year when Panjab University finally recognises and honours Premdatta Varma’s role as freedom fighter by installing a plaque.

Bhagat Singh wasn’t just hanged, but was chopped and stuffed in sacks

Satvinder Singh Juss - 23 March, 2021

In ‘The Execution of Bhagat Singh’, Satvinder Singh Juss writes how Bhagat Singh’s hanging was ‘one of the bloodiest deeds ever undertaken by the British Labour Government’.

‘Braveheart, fanatic anarchist’ — what Bhagat Singh wrote of Savarkar, and their common cause

Arun Anand - 23 March, 2021

Bhagat Singh and Veer Savarkar shared respect for each other, rooted in the cause of the freedom struggle. Historical records show how Singh perceived Savarkar.