By Tricity News
Chandigarh
19th April:- Prof. Jagmohan Singh,
nephew of Shaheed Bhagat Singh released ‘Discovery of Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s
Pistol and his Ahisma’, a book authored by journalist Jupinderjit Singh today
at the Chandigarh Press Club.
Jupinderjit chronicles
the 86 years journey of the US made 32 Colt pistol, which was used
to kill British Police Officer JP Saunders on December 17, 1928; and how
Shaheed Bhagat Singh was perhaps a stronger preacher of non-violence than
Mahatma Gandhi.
Jupinderjit Singh said
that the idea of this book developed soon after he discovered the lost pistol
of the great martyr in November 2016. Bhagat Singh had used it to kill a
British Police Officer J. P. Saunders at Lahore in 1928. The last written
record of the pistol was in 1931 when a Lahore court handed over it to police
for safe keep. As he held the gun before the BSF officers in Indore, He felt Goosebumps
and a lump in his throat. He was touching something which the great hero of
India’s freedom struggle had carried with him.
The book launch was
followed by an interactive session between the authors Jupinderjit Singh, Vivek
Atray, renowned author & motivational speaker, and DGP Punjab Suresh Arora.
Speaking about his
revelation to write the book on Shaheed Bhagat Singh, the author said that he
never imagined he would be writing a book on Shaheed Bhagat Singh one day. He
thought himself as someone who would be writing mainly on love, in all its
beauty and fall. But then, can any love be higher than the love for one’s
motherland and those great heroes who laid down their lives for this love?
While writing the book, he tried to know
the martyr, to understand his ideology, his longing to get the nation freed,
his idea of revolution and his views on violence and non-violence.
He further added that he
was also posed with questions as to what makes the martyr so charismatic that
one’s head bows in reverence at the mere mention of his name today, so many
years after he went to the gallows. With all these questions, he sat down to
write about his journey in tracing the pistol. But the narrative soon became
the journey to understand how he is more relevant in today’s India: an India,
where religion, caste, and communal sentiments have become the basis of
vote-bank politics.
Syncing with his
thoughts, Vivek Atray said that the book stands testament to how the one-time
use of the pistol, thus, turned out be a symbol of Bhagat Singh’s idea of
revolution. Needless to say, no one could have written the book in a well-knit
manner like Jupinderjit.
Prof. Jagmohan Singh, who
has edited complete works of Shaheed Bhagat Singh & his comrades, and
autobiography and speeches of Sardar Ajit Singh, uncle of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
said that he was an unsung preacher of non-violence than anyone else and he
feel glad that journalists like Jupinderjit are doing justice to the same.
Jupinderjit Singh said
that he has tried to put into words his understanding of the mind of the
martyr. It is based on the available material on him, and he would like to
insist that the aim of this book is a glorification not of his violent act, but
of the intellect and wisdom of a young 23-year-old.
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