New Delhi, March 2 Punjabi folklore is full of the brave deeds of the two 'Shaheeds' of Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh, who have legendary status, and as a young child, Satvinder Singh Juss grew up listening to stories about them from his grandfather. Upon arrival in the UK at the age of nine, he recalls the annual commemoration of them held by the Indian Workers Association in town halls across the country for the future of a free India and the unfulfilled promise that they came to represent.
"I remained enthralled by the story of Bhagat Singh's fight for freedom. Yet it was a story that was not known at all within the mainstream historical accounts of India's path to freedom in the way that stories of Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah were," Juss, a Professor of Law at King's College London, a practising Barrister and a Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal
( With inputs from IANS )
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