The “New” (?) Criminal Laws in India from the Shaheed-e-Azam’s Perspective
The “New” (?) Criminal Laws in India from the Shaheed-e-Azam’s Perspective The “New” (?) Criminal Laws in India from the Shaheed-e-Azam’s Perspective Posted on 29th June, 2024 (GMT 16:20 hrs) AKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY ⤡ This post is dedicated to all those undefeated Indian revolutionaries, whose sacrifice we have betrayed in broad daylight… What if Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) was alive today, witnessing all that has been happening in India right now? How would he have felt? Those of us who have studied his ideas for long, the answer to these questions is somewhat obvious. I won’t rely too much on the films made on him, only with the exception of The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) , which portrays his ideological stand accurately. Rang De Basanti (2006) was overall a good attempt, but it failed to comprehensively sum up Singh’s thoughts, since that was not the film’s aim in the first place. Coming to talk of Bhagat Singh conjures up a series of imageries: maybe that of a gun-t