23 years old Hero

In 1921,

Bhagat Singh was admitted to the Lahore National College, also known as the Tilak school of politics, for his pre-university studies. And after two years, he took up a B.A. course. He participated it the college's drama club, Sang, acted and became popular in the college due to his voice and physic. This college had an undeniable impact on Martyr Bhagat Singh's political journey.

Here Martyr Bhagat Singh met many people, who later played important role in nation's freedom. This wasn't a normal college. It became a symbol of Gandhi's non-cooperation movement.

Gandhi told the students to boycott school and colleges run by the British. That's why Martyr Bhagat Singh and his companions, boycotted these colleges run by the British. While Gandhi's non-violence was being discussed in the college classrooms, but after understanding Europe history, Bhagat Singh and his companions had many questions.

Was Gandhi's plan merely all talk?

When other countries got freedom thought violence, will Gandhi's non-violence be effective?

This college became a nursery for revolutionaries. Students were thought not to accept anything without thinking. They were told to use their logic every time. Through his professor, Martyr Bhagat Singh soon met a revolutionary, Sachindra Nath Sanyal founder of the HRA (Hindustan Revolutionary Association). Through his party, Martyr Bhagat Singh met his compatriots , like Chandra Shekhar Azad. After talking to Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Martyr Bhagat Singh was convinced that the way to India's freedom was only through violence.

Here, you need to understand that Martyr Bhagat Singh didn't blindly accept this as fact. He read many books. Especially on Europe history. Where he read about Auguste Vaillant. A French revolutionary who was sentenced to death in 1894, after he had set off a bomb in the Paris Chamber of Duties.

But why?

So that the people who were pretending to be deaf could hear his voice.

Martyr Bhagat Singh's companions say that he read this book many times. Auguste Vaillant's statement in the French Parliament was memorised by Martyr Bhagat Singh. But perhaps, no one knew that Auguste Vaillant's act in the Paris parliament would one day be repeated by Martyr Bhagat Singh i India. He couldn't complete his studies in National College. And in 1923, he went to Kanpur. Meanwhile his elder brother Jagat Singh passed away, after which his family pressured him to get married and to stop associating with the freedom movement.

But Bhagat Singh didn't want to get married. In his family, he had seen his young uncle becoming a martyr due to his role in the freedom movement, which meant that his aunt was left widowed at a young age He knew that he wasn't fated to live a long life. He said that he could live a peaceful, married life only when the country is free.

"I am a young man too. Blood flows through my veins too. My heart yearns for love too. But this yearning isn't strong enough to free me from my duties."

- Bhagat Singh

So, Martyr Bhagat Singh knew the likely end of his life. He had guessed it correctly.