Jail Diary of Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh wrote extensively in the period between September 1929 and March 1931, before he was sent to the gallows. He maintained a diary which was full of daily notes, his own thoughts on freedom, poverty, class struggle, and on varied political thinkers and intellectuals such as Lenin, Marx, Omar Khayyam, Morozov, Tagore, Trotsky, Bertrand Russell, Dostoevsky, Wordsworth, Ghalib, among others.

Through the pages of his jail diary, the real Bhagat Singh emerges-one who is without the hat or a gun, one who had an acute scholarly mind and a robust socialist persona.

One of the most powerful writings of the twentieth century, calling for freedom from poverty, slavery and exploitation, Bhagat Singh's jail diary is a common man's greatest manifesto till date.