The Great Entrepreneur Azad

In year 2022, almost like an exception, I saw something on indian television. Shark tank India. I was amazed by young entrepreneurs and their visions. Sharks in thier late thirtees/ early forties and entrepreneurs in early thirtess. I was pleasantly surprised how big people these young can dream. How do they recognise a problem and decide to solve it for greater good most of the time, investing their life savings and life in a cause they truly believe in.

Now cut to 1922, a fifteen-year-old boy gets disillusioned with Gandhi ji vision after he withdraws the Non-cooperation movement. He decides to do something on his own to make his motherland free. In the next couple of years, he establishes an organization and tries to recruit similar-minded young boys who share his vision for mother India. His recruits include Bhagat Singh , Ram Prasad bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan , Yashpal and Bhagwati Charan vohra.

He expands his organisation and decides to attack the colonial government where it hurts the most . Also, they needed money to run the organisation. So they loot a British train near Kakori carrying money from the treasury. They avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat Rai . Their organisation decided to make their mission known to everyone by throwing a bomb at the legislative assembly. Later on, they even tried to fund a bomb company to continue their fight. Such was his terror that even after he died in a police encounter, police shot him twice in his legs to confirm that he was actually dead before daring to come near him.

And he did all this in his short life of twenty-five years. He died before celebrating his twenty-sixth birthday. Compared to him and his vision, our sharks and budding entrepreneurs look like dwarfs. Such was the charishma and life of Chandra Shekhar Azad. He himself took the name Azad and lived his life Azad and the colonial government which ruled the world could never arrest a twenty-year-old boy.

Respects on his 91st death anniversary . Jai Bharat..