‘Free India’ was a dream of all Indians under the British rule. Everyone during that rule fought in some way or the other with a common aim of ending British and other colonial authorities in India. After a century of revolutions, struggle, blood shedding, battles and sacrifices, India finally achieved independence on August 15,1947. India was free in 1947 from the British Empire but the country lost many men and women who were filled with undaunted courage and spirit of patriotism. Today, they are known as freedom fighters because they sacrificed their lives for their motherland. Indian freedom fighters with their true spirit and undaunted courage had faced various tortures, exploitations and hardships to earn us freedom.
The pioneers of the freedom movement were Bhagat singh, Batukeshwar Dutt, Ashfaqullah khan, Chandrasekhar Azad, Khudiram Bose, Rajguru, Sukhdev and so on.......but along with the glory and majesty of these immortal sons of India also exist the name of one of the great son of mother India who was born on 27 October 1904 in Kolkata, who made the supreme sacrifice for sake of our nation in Lahore jail after 63 days of hunger strike, Jatin Das was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary initially linked with a revolutionary group named Anusilhan Smilti in the begining of his revolutionary life. He was a fellow comrade along with Bhagat Singh, he came in contact with revolutionaries from other parts of India and Bhagat Singh convinced him for bomb making to be used in an explosion in the Central Legislative Assembly. After this mission was successfully accomplished by his comrades Jatin Das along with other revolutionaries was arrested for revolutionary activities and was imprisoned in Lahore jail to be tried under the supplementary Lahore Conspiracy Case, In the Lahore jail, Jatin Das started a hunger strike along with other revolutionary fighters, demanding equality for Indian prisoners and undertrials, this hunger strike started on 13 July 1929 and ended on 13 September 1929 when Jatin Das made his supreme sacrifice......which lasted for 63 days the jail authority took many measures to forcibly feed Jatin Das and the other freedom fighters, beat them and did not even provide them with drinking water<span> </span> However, Jatindra did not eat he achieved martyrdom and the hunger strike remained unbroken till date........
63 days of hunger strike shocked the whole of India, the whole country gave him an ovation which few men in our recent history have received. As his body was carried from Lahore to Kolkata by train, thousands and thousnads of people rushed to every station to pay their homage to the martyr. A two-mile long procession in Kolkata carried the coffin to the cremation ground. The hunger strike of Jatin Das in prison was one crucial moment in the resistance against illegal detention.
After his maryrdom it was very rightly quoted by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, “As the days rolled by, one by one the hunger-strikers dropped off, but young Jatin was invincible. He never hesitated, never faltered for one small second but marched straight on towards death and freedom”
Today is the b’day of this great son of India so by paying our most sincere tributes to him from the deepest core of our heart and soul lets cherish this day with the full spirit of Inquilab and also it my solemn appeal to all the readers of this article that let every Indian know who was JATIN DAS........... he is our pride and he still resides in the heart of every Indian .....…JATIN DAS AMAR RAHE!
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