Bhagat Singh was a prominent young revolutionary hero of the Indian Independence movement, who was martyred at the age of 23. He wrote a series of essays that reflects his revolutionary fervor and ranges from 1925 to 1931. One of his most famous essays, “Why I am an Atheist” was written while he was imprisoned in the Lahore Central Jail. Bhagat Singh’s honesty and intense patriotism are entailed in the essays and weave a prismatic story that aimed to ignite a spark of hope, courage, and revolution among the readers.
