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Why I Am an Atheist (Hindi: मैं नास्तिक क्यों हूँ) is an essay written by Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh in 1930 in Lahore Central Jail. [1] [2] The essay was a reply to his religious friends who thought Bhagat Singh became an atheist because of his vanity. [3]
Indian prison literature is the prison literature mainly written by Indians who were incarcerated in the Indian subcontinent.It provides a unique entry-point into the nature of punishments, and crime, and holds a mirror to the conditions of prisoners, reflecting on the intricacies of the functioning of jails and prison houses, features of law and legal systems in a particular time and place.
Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 [2] [a] – 23 March 1931) was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary, [3] who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 [4] in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. [5]
Singh gained support when he underwent a 63 day fast in jail, demanding equal rights for Indian and British political prisoners. He was hanged for shooting a police officer in response to the killing of veteran social activist Lala Lajpat Rai. His legacy prompted youth in India to begin fighting for Indian independence and also increased the ...
James oversaw the capture and execution of the three freedom fighters – Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru – at the Lahore Jail and has written in his diary about his admiration for their revolutionary spirit, in spite of his being an officer of the British Empire. Inspired by the revolutionaries' story, Sue decides to make a film on them.
The poem was used in Manoj Kumar's Shaheed (1965) on the life of Bhagat Singh. [19] It was again used (with altered lines) as the lyrics for songs two films: in the title song of the 1999 film Sarfarosh (Zindagi Maut Na Ban Jaye), and in the 2002 Hindi film, The Legend of Bhagat Singh.
The Cellular Jail, also known as 'Kālā Pānī' (transl. 'Black Water'), was a British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The prison was used by the colonial government of India for the purpose of exiling criminals and political prisoners .
The memorial marks the location on the banks of the Sutlej river where Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru were cremated on 23 March 1931. After they were hanged in the Lahore Central Jail, the back wall was broken by the jail authorities, and their bodies were secretly brought to this memorial and cremated without any ceremony. [1]