BHAGAT SINGH
FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:
BHAGAT SINGH
(28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931)
No Indian can ever
forget your Supreme Sacrifice;
You didn’t have in your
dictionary the word ‘cowardice’;
What you couldn’t
tolerate was gross injustice;
In your loss, the nation
incurred an overprice!
Sardar, you toed, for the sake
of our independence, a line of revolution;
In search of a backbreaking solution;
That was the way you
thought you could attract people’s attention;
Toward the struggle for
freedom of our prideful nation;
Had you been alive, it
would have been a value addition;
That we lost you at a
young age was a bad and sad deprivation!
A hill or mountain, you, a frontline warrior, had the fire to confront;
As the alien regime was
an affront;
Prepared many
youngsters for the self-determination battlefront;
By always remaining at
the forefront!
That the Lion of Punjab
Lala Lajpat Rai was lathi-charged by James A Scott wounded your heart a lot;
The dormant indignation and fury in you surfaced and got you upset;
And made you remain red-hot;
You warmed yourself by the
still-glowing embers that many martyrs had left;
Never to relax before taking revenge for it;
Waited for an
opportunity to take the retaliatory gauntlet;
But alas, you ended up shooting the wrong person John P Saunders - an act of mistaken
identity and in haste!
23, was it the age for
you to depart from this world along with Rajguru and Sukhdev?
We became dumbstruck when you had a lethal weapon to wield;
For you saw many
cracks, fissures, and fractures to weld;
And also felt nothing
else could yield;
All because you had such a
mould;
And a great patriotic fervour and nationalistic spirit to uphold;
Making bold with a resolve to inflame and intensify the freedom struggle multifold;
At last, the whole nation stood stunned and startled when you, along with two others, were ordered to be hanged!
(Your Supreme Sacrifice
didn’t go in vain and India attained freedom on 15th August 1947.
The grateful nation salutes you!)
In India, MARTYRS' DAY (SHAHEED DIWAS) is observed on March 23.
(R.SAMPATH)
17/8/2023
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