The book is quite an ideology - comprising 18 essays of India's great revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh - wrote from prison. He's a very interesting revolutionary with a different perception of revolution. A young legend with extraordinary bravery, compassion, and wise to compromise to only achieve on ideals. I never heard a revolutionary like him give significant meaning to revolution, and each letter/essay in the book is a thoughtful lesson that he shares from the four walls of the prison. Perhaps the silence and struggles he adheres to along with other prisoners make sense to speak aloud their strains, and his idea of a separate rule for political prisoners seems to lay a new track of struggle that not many had thought, I think. I recommend this book to read with an open mind, like how he respected and response to everyone despite differences of opinion. And he's unusually daring enough to write to the authority about his choice of execution. Man, I think that no one would have been born with his courage and die out of bravery at a very young age of 23!
Inquilab Zindabad
Long live the revolution
...some people live their conviction.
ReplyDeleteWhat a brave soul he was!
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with him. Sounds like an interesting read.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fascinating man and book ~ thought provoking ~ Xo
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Thanks for recommending the book. Interesting to get to know more about such a man.
ReplyDeleteThis man is very famous. I never expected the book to be written from the prison.
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