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Friday, December 11, 2009

Freedom Fighters

Chandrasekhar Azad

Date of Birth : Jul 23, 1906
Date of Death : Feb 27, 1931
Place of Birth : India

Freedom Fighters
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Purushottam Das Tandon
Motilal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Jayaprakash Narayan
Hakim Ajmal Khan
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Feroze Gandhi
Liaquat Ali Khan
Maulana Mohammad Ali
Maulana Shaukat Ali
Govind Ballabh Pant
Dr.Shanker Dayal Sharma
Mahavir Tyagi
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
Ram Manohar Lohia
Chandrasekhar Azad
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Dadabhai Naoroji
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Ravi Shankar Vyas
Narhari Parikh
Jivatram Kripalani
Mahadev Desai
Mohanlal Pandya
Abbas Tyabji
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
Vithalbhai Patel
Vinoba Bhave
Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Kulapati K.M. Munshi
Senapati Bapat
Mahadeo Govind Ranade
Subhas Chandra Bose
Bipin Chandra Pal
Chittaranjan Das
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Rabindranath Tagore
Surya Sen
Gopinath Bordoloi
Benoy Basu
Badal Gupta
Dinesh Gupta
Khudiram Bose
Bagha Jatin
Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh
Surendranath Banerjea
Ambika Chakrobarty
C. Rajagopalachari
Krishna Menon
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Srinivasa Iyengar
Muhammad Iqbal
Lala Lajpat Rai
Sardul Singh Caveeshar
Sheikh Abdullah
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Bhagat Singh
Shivaram Rajguru
Sukhdev
Tej Bahadur Sapru
Sikander Hyat Khan
Madan Lal Dhingra

Chandrasekhar Azad was a great Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary thinker. Revered for his audacious deeds and fierce patriotism, he was the mentor of Bhagat Singh, the famous Indian martyr. Chandrasekhar Azad is considered one of the greatest Indian freedom fighter along with Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Ram Prasad Bismil, and Ashfaqulla Khan. Chandrasekhar Azad's parents were Pandit Sita Ram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi. He received his early schooling in Bhavra District Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh). For higher studies he went to the Sanskrit Pathashala at Varanasi. Young Azad was one of the young generation of Indians when Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation Movement. But many were disillusioned with the suspension of the struggle in 1922 owing to the Chauri Chaura massacre of 22 policemen. Although Gandhi was appalled by the brutal violence, Azad did not feel that violence was unacceptable in the struggle, especially in view of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, where Army units killed hundreds of unarmed civilians and wounded thousands in Amritsar. Young Azad and contemporaries like Bhagat Singh were deeply and emotionally influenced by that tragedy. As a revolutionary, he adopted the lastname 'Azad', which means "Free" in Urdu.There is an interesting story that while he adopted the name "Azad" he made a pledge that the Police will never capture him alive. Azad and others had committed themselves to absolute independence by any means. He was most famous for The Kakori Rail Dacoity in 1925 and the assassination of the assistant superintendent of Police John Poyantz Saunders in 1928.


Azad and his compatriots would target British officials known for their oppressive actions against ordinary people, or for beating and torturing arrested freedom fighters. Azad was also a believer in socialism as the basis for a future India, free of social and economic oppression and adversity. Bhagat Singh joined Azad following the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, an Indian leader who was beaten to death by police officials. Azad trained Singh and others in covert activities, and the latter grew close to him after witnessing his resolve, patriotism and courage. Along with fellow patriots like Rajguru and Sukhdev, Azad and Singh formed the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, committed to complete Indian independence and socialist principles of for India's future progress. Betrayed by an informer on 27 February 1931 Azad was encircled by British troops in the Alfred park, Allahabad. He kept on fighting till the last bullet. Azad is a hero to many Indians today. Alfred Park was renamed Chandrasekhar Azad park, as have been scores of schools, colleges, roads and other public institutions across India.

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