Was not getting sleep yesterday night. Hence started the third chapter of this book. This is a must read for anybody interested in Indian Freedom Struggle.

Bhagat Singh, Sukdev and Rajguru were hanged to death for bombing parliment. Two bombs were dropped in no mans land. And revolutionaries started distributing leaflets. Leaflet thrown in the Central Assembly Hall, New Delhi at the time of the throwing voice bombs. The content of the leaflet was
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Found this video of Swami Vivekananda’s speech at Parliment of The world. From an audio release about Life and Works of Swami Vivekananda.Though it is not the actual voice of Vivekananda, we can feel the power of his thoughts on Hinduism, and his respect for other religions.

From Wikipedia : The eloquence of Swami Vivekananda and his introduction of Hindu thought to the United States are particularly remembered. The speech has been identified by many to mark the beginning of western interest in Hinduism not as merely an exotic eastern oddity, but as a vital religious and philosophical tradition that might actually have something important to teach the West.[3][4] The opening line, “Sisters and Brothers of America…”, was greeted by a three minute standing ovation from the audience of 7000.[5]

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Subash has been one of my heroes since school time. How can I miss visiting his home when I have been to Kolkatta all the way from Bangalore? After visiting to Kali Mandir we caught the metro to reach Netaji House. Unfortunately it was 4:15pm by the time we reached. And they close Netaji house by 4. Well everything I wanted to see was outside. The escape route, the car etc. I took few pictures of the house and the steps at the back of the house he used for the escape. I have the picture of the car too. Let me search them and upload.

MK and Mathang having a chat in front of Netaji house while I was clicking.

Matty in front of Netaji Bhavan.

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