Tributing the great Freedom Fighter Chandershekar Azad on his birth anniversary i.e. 23 July 1906.
Born in a Brahmin family on July 23, 1906, to Pandit Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi, he spent his early childhood in the Bhabra village of Madhya Pradesh.
Born in a Brahmin family on July 23, 1906, to Pandit Sitaram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi, he spent his early childhood in the Bhabra village of Madhya Pradesh.
Chandra Shekhar’s mother wanted him to become a Sanskrit scholar and so the young lad was sent to Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi for higher studies. It was here that he became aware of turmoil India was in as well as the nationalist struggle for freedom.
On February 27, they set up a cordon with a troop of 80 sepoys to surround the sprawling Alfred Park in Allahabad and moved in to arrest the cornered revolutionaries. More than three dozen rifles battled against two pistols. Whenever the firing paused, the police would attempt to
close in, only to be driven back by a hail of bullets. Soon, two policemen lay dead and several others had been injured. By this time, Azad had also been shot in the right thigh. Undaunted, the injured revolutionary engaged the police in another fierce bout of firing that helped
his friend escape. Knowing he could not escape, he decided to honour a vow he had made to himself — that the police would never be able to catch him alive.
To honour the incredible sacrifice of this legend, the park has been renamed Chandra Shekhar Azad Park. A statue of Azad — muscular, bare-chested and twirling his moustache — has also been installed near the tree where he died and visited by hundreds of people every day.
For as Chandershekar Azad himself said "If yet your blood does not rage, then it is a water that flow in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland".
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