Today is the birthday of Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary socialist and a legend of India’s independence movement. He was born in 1907 and would later join the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association and took part in numerous armed actions against the British. The colonial authorities executed him in 1931 when he was just 23 years old.

Although he respected Gandhi’s role in organizing people to resist British rule, he also developed a critique of Gandhi’s methods and vision for a post-independence India. However, despite his atheism and Marxism, he’s still revered today by all sections of the country and is referred to as Shaheed-e-Azam (the Great Martyr) in Punjabi.

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