Rebel in black & white

He had a lust for life... and for freedom. His biggest asset was his spirit of camaraderie. The first official biography of Bhagat Singh by Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich brings forth the little known details of the unrelenting revolutionary, the caring son, the loyal friend and the ‘ordinary’ man who relished the simple pleasures of life writes Aditi Tandon

LAST year on Kakori Day (December 19) Bhagat Singh quietly came alive in the utterances of Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich from Chandigarh. The 78-year-old chronicler of the revolutionary movement told overwhelming tales about the lives of Bhagat Singh and his companions. Among them were Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah of the Hindustan Republican Army (HRA), who kissed the gallows on December 19, 1927.

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