And the man who immortalised them was Ram Prasad Bismil (the lines themselves were written by Bismil Azimabadi of Patna in 1921).Ī firebrand freedom fighter, Bismil was also a talented poet who wrote in Urdu and Hindi, under the pen names Ram, Agyat and Bismil. He was also the founding member of Hindustan Republican Association (that became Hindustan Socialist Republican Association) whose more popular revolutionary members were Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad. These immortal lines became a war cry for India’s freedom struggle against the British. “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai, dekhna ki zor kitna baazu-e-qatil mein hai.” (The desire for revolution is in our hearts, we shall see how much strength lies in the arms of the enemy.)
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