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Letter
to
B.K.
Dutt
[This
letter
gives
an
idea
as to
what
Bhagat
Singh
expected
from
those
comrades
who
would
escape
capital
punishment.]
Central
Jail,
Lahore
November,
1930
DEAR
BROTHER,
The
judgement
has
been
delivered.
I am
condemned
to
death.
In
these
cells,
besides
myself,
there
are
many
others
prisoners
who
are
waiting
to be
hanged.
The
only
prayer
of
these
people
is
that
somehow
or
other
they
may
escape
the
moose.
Perhaps
I am
the
only
man
amongst
them
who
is
anxiously
waiting
for
the
day
when
I
will
be
fortunate
enough
to
embrace
the
gallows
for
my
ideal.
I
will
climb
the
gallows
gladly
and
show
to
the
world
as to
how
bravely
the
revolutionaries
can
sacrifice
themselves
for
the
cause.
I
will
condemned
to
death,
but
you
are
sentenced
to
transportation
for
life.
You
will
live
and,
while
living,
you
will
have
to
show
to
the
world
that
the
revolutionaries
not
only
die
for
their
ideals
but
can
face
every
calamity.
Death
should
not
be a
means
to
escape
the
worldly
difficulties.
Those
revolutionaries
who
have
by
chance
escaped
the
gallows
for
the
ideal
but
also
bear
the
worst
type
o
tortures
in
the
dark
dingy
prison
cells.
Yours
Bhagat
Singh
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