Sep 28: The man who shook the British crown was born 114 years ago today.
His slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' is an anti-national word today. Bhagat Singh once beautifully explained the meaning of Inquilab Zindabad to a journalist.
A #Thread on his quotes about Caste & Religion.
Bhagat Singh explains the meaning he tried to convey by the phrase 'Inquilab Zindabad' to the editor of the Modern Review.
- The Tribune (December 24, 1929)
Below are the quotes from 'Why I am an Atheist'
"You, the Hindus, Let me say it plainly that your ancestors were shrewd people. They were always in search of petty hoaxes to play upon people and snatch from them the power of Reason."
- Bhagat Singh (Why I am an Atheist)
Bhagat Singh was very vocal against Brahmanism.
"What is your view about punishments inflicted on the people who were deliberately kept ignorant by selfish and proud Brahmans?
If by chance these poor creatures heard a few words of your sacred books, Vedas, these Brahmans poured melted lead into their ears."
- Bhagat Singh.
"What, according to your theory, is the fate of a person who, by no sin of his own, has been born into a family of low caste people? He is poor so he cannot go to school. It is his fate to be shunned and hated by those who are born into a high caste."
- Bhagat Singh
"Why doesn't your God infuse humanistic sentiments into the minds of the Britishers so that they may willingly leave India? Where is your God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!"
- Bhagat Singh.
Bhagat Singh was planning to bring a mass uprising in the Indian society along lines of the October revolution which happened in Russia.
Naujawan Bharat Sabha (NBS) was a left-wing association founded by Bhagat Singh. Mahavir Singh (died in Andaman Jail) was a member of NBS.
The British Press called Bhagat Singh the Red Terror. On January 21st 1930, in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, he appeared in the court wearing red scarves. He was reading Lenin's biography during his last hours.
April 1929 : A 22 year old Marxist and Rationalist, possessing communist literature, threw bombs over the empty seats in the Central Assembly and stayed there to get arrested, so that the court case became a stage to voice his cause.
Imagine if Bhagat Singh had been alive today.
Today, everyone wants the legacy of Bhagat Singh but no one wants to read 'Why I am an Atheist'. No one wants to follow his Leftist principles.
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