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, by KHAN Lal
Revolutionary struggles erupt with their own dynamics. The legacies, such struggles leave behind are often symbolised by iconic figures. According to the mainstream myths, Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru and other such leaders belonging to the native bourgeois fostered by the Raj led anti-colonial (...)
, by JAN Ammar Ali
The 23rd of March 2017 was the 86th death anniversary of Bhagat Singh, one of the most revered figures of the anti-colonial movement. In India, his life and death will be commemorated by a right-wing government which, after the nomination of an outright anti-Muslim bigot as the chief minister (...)
, by GILLANI Waqar
The district administration Faisalabad (Punjab, Pakistan) plans to save the remains of Bhagat Singh’s birthplace and develop his entire village.
Not many people would know that barely thirteen miles southeast of Faisalabad in Punjab lies the village where the revolutionary hero Bhagat Singh (...)
, by ISLAM Shamsul
According to some newspapers reports Yadvendra Singh Sandhu, a distant relative of great martyr of Indian Freedom Struggle, Bhagat Singh (hanged on March 23, 1931 along with Sukhdev & Rajguru in Lahore) has invited Hindutva icon, Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister, who calls himself (...)
, by JOSHUA Anita
ISLAMABAD, November 1, 2012
The decision to rename Lahore’s Shadman Chowk after revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh has been delayed amid protests from some right-wing organisations, including the Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
The matter has been referred to a committee set up to look into all (...)
, by LAL Chaman, USMAN Ali
September 28, 2012, marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of South Asian revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Revolutionaries across India and Pakistan marked this occasion with meetings and ceremonies. Below, Chaman Lal introduces readers of Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal to the (...)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Yesterday, at Shadman Chouck Lahore, the place where Bhagat Singh was hanged on 23 March 1931, several groups including Labour Party Pakistan organized a vigil. There were a good numbers of political activists present on the occasion. Lok Rahs, organized a street theater on the spot. Later on (...)
, by Liberation (India)
Pattabhi Sitaramayya, official historian of the Congress had noted that there was a time during the freedom struggle when “Bhagat Singh’s name was as widely known all over India and was as popular as Gandhi’s.” In the 60 years since Independence, India’s ruling class has done its best to erode that (...)
, by PRASAD Yuri
Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, born 100 years ago this week, was a young radical who fought British rule and rejected non-violence. Yuri Prasad looks at his life.
The struggle for freedom from British colonial rule in India is usually presented as the result of the leadership of one man – (...)
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