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by Swati Sengupta (Author)
Born in 1907 to a family of farmers in Punjab, Bhagat Singh, at the age of
three, had declared that he was sowing guns so he could fight the British
colonizers. As he grew up, Bhagat Singh became a widely read and fiercely
intelligent man. He would dedicate his life to not only making India free but
also towards creating a more equitable society.
Along with many young men and women, he planned seemingly impossible
acts of daring, rebelling against the oppression and exploitation of the British.
When Lala Lajpat Rai died of injuries inflicted by the police under James
Scott, Bhagat Singh and his revolutionary friends sought to avenge the death
of the great freedom fighter. However, they ended up mistakenly killing
John Saunders, another British officer. Bhagat Singh made a daring escape
in disguise but he was not one to stay long in hiding. Along with Batukeswar
Dutt, he decided to storm the Central Assembly in Delhi with pamphlets and
smoke bombs, protesting unfair new laws. The two refused to escape, and
waited to be arrested.
When he was twenty-four years old, Bhagat Singh was put to death. Till the
very end, he refused to bow down. His astonishing life and death are brought
to life in this lucid new biography for young readers.
