Bhagat Singh: The most misunderstood freedom fighters of India.

Many people know Bhagat Singh as a fearless freedom fighter and many put his photo as their profile pictures. But none of them have not tried to understand his opinions, ideas, and ideologies. 

Important unknown facts of the Bhagat Singh: 

• When you hear the name 'Bhagat Singh', many may think  like weapons and violence. But Bhagat Singh was considered a fierce intellectual of his time. Most of his lifetime, he had a book in his hand. He had studied British, European, American, Russian literature at deep. Some estimates that he had read over 250 books before being arrested. And in the two years he spent in jail, he read more than 300 books. 

• Bhagat Singh was also renowned for his prose for his writing. His articles were published in magazines of that time such as Kirti, Akali, Veer Arjun and Pratap. Bhagat Singh was an intellectual of the very best order. 

• People are happy to project an intellectual revolutionary like Bhagat Singh as a trigger-happy rebel. But Bhagat Singh had said that, "Bombs and pistols cannot bring revolution. Revolution's sword is sharpened on thoughts and peace."

• Bhagat Singh was very influenced by Marx, Lenin, and Socialist ideologies. It pained him when he saw how society treated farmers, laborers, factory workers. It is for these burdened folks that he wanted to fight. 

• Most of our freedom fighters prioritized getting freedom from the British Raj and they debate on Social Justice. Exploitation is exploitation and it does not matter who the exploiter is, Whether it is a Britisher or an Indian. It does not matter who rules or is in power.He wants  farmer and a laborer, should get desire life. 

• Bhagat Singh thought that political revolution was unavoidable in India at that time. But his ultimate objective is socialist revolution. Even he had a revolutionary party called "Hindustan Socialist Republican Association."

• He had raised three slogans.

            Long Live the Revolution! (Inquilab Zindabad)

            Workers of the World Unite.

            'Down with Imperialism'.

 

            During his trials, he raised the slogan like,

 

            "Long Live Socialist Revolution".

            "Down with Imperialism". 

            "The entire earth is a family". 

• Bhagat Singh accepts many of the Nehru's ideologies, and he called Subhash Chandra Bose an emotional Bengali and said that he romanticized India's beauty.

•  Mahatma Gandhi was promoting the Indian version of secularism and on the other hand, Bhagat Singh believed in the French version of secularism. Where there needs to a distance between the Government and religion always.

• He is an Atheist and asked if God created this world why this much pain. He indicated so much injustice, so much pain and suffering in the world, not to name it as a pleasure of a god. 

• Here Bhagat Singh talks about the Theory of Jurisprudence. He believes strongly that revenge as justice is a very outdated idea. That revenge is that the thanks to the justice is an ideology best within in the past. On the other side, the Theory of Punishment where someone is punished for their crime, is also an ideology that is slowly removed from the world. The third is a Corrective theory, which is slowly being accepted within in the world now. It is necessary for human to move on. The corrective theory says that if someone has harmed someone, he should be reformed and converted into a peace-loving citizen.