Book on Bhagat Singh’s jail notes released
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 5
A book ‘Bhagat Singh’s Jail Note Book: Its Context and Relevance’ was released today.
The book has been edited by Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich and Harish Jain and published by Unistar Books, Chandigarh.
Prof Harish Puri, former head of Department of Political Science, GNDU, Amritsar, who has extensively worked on Punjab’s freedom movement said excerpts, notes and quotes from those books which he wrote down in his jail notebook reflected not only the seriousness with which he studied the books but also his intellectual sophistication and social and political concerns.
He said: “This work helps one understand why the authors Bhagat Singh was quoting in his notebook mattered to the martyr.”
Speaking on the occasion, Harish Jain said besides discussing the ideas central to the books, an attempt had been made to explain use quotes he chose to copy.
He said the intention behind this work was to make Bhagat Singh’s world of books spirited and vibrant for the reader so that they might also be his fellow travellers and also got a chance to open a window into his times.
The book also carried a list of the books he consulted in jail, maintained Jain. It was released by Justice Ajay Tewari, Justice Deepak Sibal, Baldev Mahajan, Advocate-General Haryana, Prof Harish Puri, Prof Ronki Ram and Prof Jasbir Singh.
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