Tag: Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha

NOVANEWS (Liberation pays tribute to Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha, the Ghadar movement hero martyred on 16 November 2015.) Kartar Singh Sarabha                 Kartar Singh Sarabha was 19 when he was executed by the British colonial Raj on 16 November 2015. But his afterlife was a long one if his life was short. Sarabha’s legacy inspired Bhagat Singh, who used to carry a photo of Sarabha in his pocket at all times. Sarabha and the Ghadar movement were the living link between the 1857 First War of Independence; the Russian Revolution; and Bhagat Singh’s generation of revolutionaries. Kartar Singh Sarabha Grewal was born on 24 May 1896 in Sarabha village, Ludhiana district, Punjab. He was schooled in Ludhiana and did his final year...