At an age when most were still discovering the world, Bhagat Singh was ready to leave it, if it meant his country could breathe free.
With fire in his eyes and Inquilab Zindabad on his lips, he walked into the storm of revolution not out of hatred, but out of an unshakable love for his motherland. He was not just a boy with a gun in his hand; he was a brave heart ablaze with purpose.
For Bhagat Singh, patriotism was not merely a feeling but a struggle to see India free from the shackles of her tormentors. Born in 1907 in Banga of Punjab, he was raised in a household soaked in patriotism. His father and uncle were part of the Ghadar movement, and tales of courage and rebellion were teatime conversations at home.
What stirred Bhagat Singh’s soul was the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, where hundreds of innocent Indians were killed without warning. He visited the site, collected the blood-soaked soil in a bottle and vowed to fight for the innocents who couldn’t.
That flame of resistance in him blazed even higher when Lala Lajpat Rai was brutally lathi-charged by the British police, eventually succumbing to his injuries. He famously said, “The blows struck at Lala Lajpat Rai have left a scar on my heart. I will take revenge.”
This wasn’t revenge born out of hatred; it was born out of immense love for his mentor, justice and Bharat Mata. The soil of Jallianwala Bagh was not just simple mud to him, it was a promise.
In 1929, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt carried out an explosive bombing in the Central Legislative Assembly. Why? Because he wanted the deaf to hear. And so, he did not run. He stood there holding copies of pamphlets and shouting “Inquilab Zindabad!”
Coined by Urdu poet Hasrat Mohani, the slogan was immortalised by Bhagat Singh. Every time he shouted it, the words echoed like thunder across jails, courtrooms and streets.
He wanted to awaken the sleeping soul of the nation, shake the colonial powers and tell the world: “We are not slaves who will be ruled silently.”
When the British sentenced Bhagat Singh to death, his father tried to file a mercy petition. Bhagat Singh came to know this and was furious.
He wrote, “I am not a terrorist. I am a revolutionary. My death will do more to shake the foundations of British rule than my life.”
Bhagat Singh had mind of a scholar, heart of a warrior and soul of a poet. He believed in a free, secular and fair India where education and equality mattered more than caste, religion or power.
Today, Bhagat Singh’s ideals are not just relics of the past, they are the truths we must revisit. In classrooms, homes and boardrooms — we need to honour the fearlessness of Bhagat Singh and stand for honesty and dignity in our everyday lives.
Bhagat Singh once said, “They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.” Hence, at Luv My India, we celebrate the spirit of India that Bhagat Singh died for.
We salute him not just as a freedom fighter, but as a torchbearer of what it means to be true Indian at heart. He didn’t just die for our country; he taught us how to live for it. And that’s how he became eternal, a Shaheed-e-Azam.
