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Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian…
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culture · Indian revolutionary (1907–1931) · author · freedom fighter · revolutionary · also Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Singh
Born 28 September 1907 · Died 23 March 1931 · Q377808
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2026· 10 entries
“I have been arrested while waging a war. For me there can be no gallows. Put me into the mouth of a cannon and blow me off.”
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“s execution (and for that matter, capital punishment in general) and proclaimed that he had no power to stop it. Of Singh”
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The Times of India: ‘Cannot afford any mistake’: Harmanpreet Singh rues India’s lapses despite Pakistan win
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Open Magazine: India-Japan Defence Talks Explained: Why Rajnath Singh-Koizumi Meeting Could Reshape Indo-Pacific Security
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The Times of India: FBI puts Indian national Major Singh on Most Wanted list
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Firstpost: FBI names Indian national Major Singh in Most Wanted list over organised crime links
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WION: Who is Major Singh? Indian gangster in FBI's most wanted list
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Public attention spiked: 17,237 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.4× the usual 1,842, with 8 article edits. Editors noted: Films and television Adding/improving reference(s)
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Public attention spiked: 7,003 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 1,842, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5
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2023· 1 entry
FACTLY rated the claim “Gandhi & Nehru’s inaction about Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya’s plea led to Bhagat Singh’s death” FALSE.
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2022· 3 entries
NewsMobile rated the claim “A lawyer named Asaf Ali represented Bhagat Singh in a court case white Satyanarayan Sharma, an RSS worker represented the crown” Misleading.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Bhagat Singh said – “Your rule is like a sponge which sucks the jewels and diamonds of Ganga and squeezes it at the Thames in England….The Mughals ruled our hearts and unlike you, they did not take India’s wealth outside.”” FALSE.
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India Today rated the claim “Arvind Kejriwal wore shoes while paying tribute at the memorial of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.” Mostly false.
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2021· 5 entries
Alt News rated the claim “Photo of funeral of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “Photo shows the funeral ceremony of freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru.” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “Bhagat Singh's sister Prakash Kaur died recently” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Indian freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed on 14 February 1931 (Valentine’s day)” FALSE.
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India Today rated the claim “It was on February 14, 1931, that Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death in Lahore.” Mostly false.
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2020· 2 entries
BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows freedom fighter Bhagat Singh being flogged by British police” False.
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India Today rated the claim “This is a rare picture of Bhagat Singh being publicly flogged by the British.” Mostly false.
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2019· 1 entry
Alt News rated the claim “Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru hanged on February 14, Valentine's Day” False.
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2009· 1 entry
In Khatkar Kalan at a cost of ₹168 million (US$1
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2002· 1 entry
Concurring with the spate of Hindi films on Singh that year, which was the first video game with 3D graphics and first FPS developed in India according to Scroll
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1968· 2 entries
A postage stamp was issued in India commemorating the 61st birth anniversary of Singh
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And has memorials of Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev
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1931· 5 entries
Died 1931-03-23.
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“The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.”
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“Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.”
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“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.”
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“By "Revolution", we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.”
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1929· 3 entries
“It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled, while the ideas survived.”
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Proposed a dramatic act to the HSRA intended to gain massive publicity for their aims
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The HSRA had set up bomb factories in Lahore and Saharanpur
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1928· 1 entry
The British government set up the Simon Commission to report on the political situation in India
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1925· 1 entry
Stressed that non-cooperation was preferable to violence
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1924· 1 entry
Writing an article under the name 'Balwant' in praise of ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, calling him a 'braveheart' and 'fierce insurgent' before Savarkar had shifted to Hindutva
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1923· 1 entry
Joined the National College in Lahore, founded two years earlier by Lala Lajpat Rai in response to Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, which urged Indian students to shun schools and colleges subsidized by the
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1907· 2 entries
Born 1907-09-28.
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And later, the Ghadar Movement of 1914–1915
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