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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