The post starts with a sad pre-note – ‘how badly we have missed out knowing the real martyrs who gave their lives in earning freedom’.Recently, when I circulated one of my posts on Indian freedom struggle, a respected senior surveyor wrote back stating ‘I feel proud of my family on true contribution to freedom struggle – my maternal uncle, a revolutionary of North West Province (Inder Muni Bhatia) was shot dead by British at young age of 21 and my uncle remained in prison with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and awarded Tamrapatra …



With heavy heart- S. Sampathkumar 15th May 2019. the house pictured at the start - Sukhdev home at Ludhiana pic credit : connectedtoindia.com