CM Kejriwal launches book on Bhagat Singh
BY MPost4 July 2016 4:21 AM IST
MPost4 July 2016 4:21 AM IST
“The book gives a glimpse of the socio-economic concerns of the greater martyr Sardar Bhagat Singh. It also gives a true understanding of his ideologies,” said Arvind Kejriwal. The book, Bhagat Singh ‘Jail Note Book: Its Context and Relevance’, has been edited by Chandigarh-based publisher Harish Jain and Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich, a lawyer and academician.
The book is unique in the sense that this is the first-of-its-kind book after more than eight decades of his martyrdom that tries to answer the questions like how a 23-year-old young man was able to deal with such complex ideas? How he was trying to understand the contemporary society? How he was able to answer many questions. Answers too many of the above questions can be found in the notebook, in which Bhagat Singh jotted down the notes during the last days in Lahore Jail.
Harish Jain claimed that the book settles the debate that Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook comprises notes from 46 books and not 400 books as has been known so far. The book also carries a list of the books he consulted in jail. “Bhagat Singh was citing original authors in his quotes, by picking the same as secondary sources,” said Jain.
Jain said that the main intention behind this work was to make Bhagat Singh’s world of books spirited and vibrant for the readers so that they may also be able to get a chance to open a window into his times.
“In majority of the quotes from Bernard Shaw’s plays and his preface to English Prison, and Eveyln Ruggles-Brise’s seminal work on ‘English Prison System’, all had the same implication for him, these made more sense of what was happening around,” added Jain.
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