Remembering Udham Singh, the brave heart who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre
6 years, 5 months ago

Remembering Udham Singh, the brave heart who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Op India  

On 13th April 1919, troops of the British Indian Army fired upon a peaceful gathering in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. Udham Singh, born on 26th December 1899, held Michael D’wyer, who was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab when Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place, responsible for the massacre. He was deeply influenced by Bhagat Singh and his revolutionary group, which, in 1928, in a bid to avenge Lala Lajpat Rai’s death, attempted to assassinate James A. Scott, the superintendent of police in Lahore who had ordered lathi charge and personally assaulted Lala Lajpat Rai. On 13th March 1940 when Michael D’wyer was scheduled to speak at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society at Caxton Hall, London, Udham Singh entered the hall with a revolver he had earlier purchased. Udham Singh’s remains are still preserved at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.

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President Murmu, PM Modi, others pay tribute to Jallianwala Bagh massacre victims
9 months ago

President Murmu, PM Modi, others pay tribute to Jallianwala Bagh massacre victims

India TV News  

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi among other leaders paid tribute to the people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 on Friday. President Droupadi Murmu also remembered the victims of massacre and said, "My heartfelt tribute to all the freedom fighters who sacrificed everything for the motherland in Jallianwala Bagh! In a post on X PM …

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Date: Some Lesser Known Facts That Everyone Must Know
1 year, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Date: Some Lesser Known Facts That Everyone Must Know

The Quint  

After people came to know about the Rowlatt Act, they gathered together in Jallianwala Bagh, a public area in Amritsar for peaceful protests, The protesters included people of all age groups including men, women, and children. The protests were considered as a threat to the authority of the British colonial government, led by General Reginald Dyer, who made the decision …

DAV School Student, European Literature Fan: On Bhagat Singh's 115th Birth Anniversary Know His Qualifications
2 years, 3 months ago

DAV School Student, European Literature Fan: On Bhagat Singh's 115th Birth Anniversary Know His Qualifications

News 18  

The Independent India that we now live in is the fruit of the labor of several freedom fighters who have made huge sacrifices for the country. Read | AAP, BJP, Congress Hail Bhagat Singh as Teacher, Know What Was Bhagat Singh’s Inspiration While in college, Bhagat also worked as a writer and editor in Amritsar for Punjabi- and Urdu-language newspapers …

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Background, causes, aftermath and significance
2 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Background, causes, aftermath and significance

India Today  

Very few moments in the history of our sub-continent are as repulsive to remember and yet as significant to history as the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919, when a group of peaceful protestors was gunned down in an enclosed park with only one exit. BACKGROUND OF JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACARE If we …

Remembering Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: 5 Bollywood movies that recount the horrors of brutal killings
2 years, 9 months ago

Remembering Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: 5 Bollywood movies that recount the horrors of brutal killings

India TV News  

Highlights Anushka Sharma’s film Phillauri's few scenes were shot at Jallianwala Bagh. Sardar Udham starred actor Vicky Kaushal in the lead role The Legend of Bhagat Singh is a close recreation of Freedom Fighter Bhagat Singh April 13 marks 103 years of the brutal Jallianwala Bagh Massacre where peaceful unarmed protesters were killed on the order of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer. …

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Remembering the dark day 103 years later
2 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Remembering the dark day 103 years later

India TV News  

Highlights Shots were fired on the orders of Colonel Reginald Dyer, who was the acting Brigadier He had asked his troops to shoot indiscriminately without asking the crowd to disperse The site was an enclosed garden known as Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab's Amritsar The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place exactly 103 years back on April 13, 1919. Let's look at …

Armed intruder arrested at Windsor Castle wanted to avenge the dead in Jallianwala Bagh massacre by assassinating Queen Elizabeth II, claims video
3 years ago

Armed intruder arrested at Windsor Castle wanted to avenge the dead in Jallianwala Bagh massacre by assassinating Queen Elizabeth II, claims video

Firstpost  

Officers from the Thames Valley and the Metropolitan Police say the suspect was carrying an offensive weapon and the royal family was informed A 19-year-old man with an offensive weapon was arrested on Sunday for breaching the security at Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II is spending her Christmas. Following the incident, a video has surfaced which alleges that the …

Jallianwala Bagh | Monument of a massacre
3 years, 4 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh | Monument of a massacre

The Hindu  

A debate over how the Jallianwala Bagh massacre should be remembered was sparked off last week after the government unveiled the renovated look of the site, leading some historians to say history was being distorted. While inaugurating the renovated memorial, Mr. Modi said the new look of Jallianwala Bagh would inspire Indians for years to come. Professor Amandeep Bal, head …

102 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Harsimrat Kaur Badal pay tribute to martyrs
3 years, 9 months ago

102 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Harsimrat Kaur Badal pay tribute to martyrs

Firstpost  

General Dyer entered the premises of Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh and ordered the British Army to open fire on innocent civilians British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered the shooting at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh 102 years ago, in which 35 Indians had died, as per British figures. Praying tributes to the people who lost their lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “Their courage, …

102 years of Jallianwala Bagh massacre: When British General Dyer rained bullets on thousands of Indians
3 years, 9 months ago

102 years of Jallianwala Bagh massacre: When British General Dyer rained bullets on thousands of Indians

Firstpost  

The Jallianwala Bagh had witnessed a massacre at the hands of the British 102 years ago, when thousands of men, women and children were killed on the orders of British general Reginald Dyer. The official number of deaths, released by the British, stood at 350, but the Congress party said as many as 1,000 people lost their lives in the …

Freedom Fighter Udham Singh Death Anniversary: Learn These Facts About the 'Shaheed-i-Azam'
4 years, 5 months ago

Freedom Fighter Udham Singh Death Anniversary: Learn These Facts About the 'Shaheed-i-Azam'

News 18  

Freedom fighter Udham Singh was hung to his death on July 31, 1940. After the death of their father, Udham Singh and his brother moved to Central Khalsa Orphanage in Putlighar. As the nation remembers Udham Singh on his death anniversary, we take a look at a few facts about the freedom fighter: ● He was formally charged with the …

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Amarinder Singh, Kejriwal pay tribute to martyrs on tragedy's 101st anniversary
4 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Amarinder Singh, Kejriwal pay tribute to martyrs on tragedy's 101st anniversary

Firstpost  

On 13 April, 1919, British soldiers, under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, opened fire at a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on Baisakhi On 13 April, 1919, British soldiers, under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, opened fire at a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in …

Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for massacre at Jallianwala Bagh memorial
5 years, 4 months ago

Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for massacre at Jallianwala Bagh memorial

Live Mint  

Amritsar: Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby on Tuesday visited Jallianwala Bagh memorial and said that he was both 'ashamed and sorry' for the crime which was committed at that site in 1919. While paying homage at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial, Welby said, "I cannot speak for the British Government. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April, 1919, when …

Shaheed Udham Singh Jayanti 2019: All you need to know about the man who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre
5 years, 5 months ago

Shaheed Udham Singh Jayanti 2019: All you need to know about the man who avenged Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Firstpost  

Following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919, a little known Indian Udham Singh waited for 21 years to avenge the death of the innocents by assassinating British administrator Michael O’Dwyer in 1940. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre On 13 April, 1919, the day of the Baisakhi festival, about 20,000 unarmed men, women and children gathered at Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh. How his fight …

Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919
5 years, 7 months ago

Forgetting history and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919

Hindustan Times  

It is still April when I visit Jallianwala Bagh, a full 100 years after the 1919 massacre. Free from any discipline of the memorial to observe decorum, visitors picnic merrily in the shaded colonnades But at the Bagh it is just another day in the park. Instead, the visitors are all set to follow the advice of a popular tourism …

Jallianwala Bagh: The massacre that shook the empire
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh: The massacre that shook the empire

Live Mint  

The actual shooting is supposed to have lasted only about 10 minutes. As the famous sequence in Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi suggests, when the British officer Gen. Reginald Dyer saw some men trying to flee the park by trying to scale a wall, he ordered his men to aim in that direction, killing more. Gandhi launched the non-cooperation movement with …

Jallianwala Bagh: Massacre of innocents that shaped history
5 years, 9 months ago

Jallianwala Bagh: Massacre of innocents that shaped history

Hindustan Times  

Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh was a desolate piece of land partly used for dumping garbage until British General Reginald Dyer oversaw the massacre of several hundred unarmed people gathered there on April 13, 1919, to protest against a draconian law that allowed internments without trial. Davinder Pal Singh, a Sikh scholar whose family has been running a shop for decades near …

An ode to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh
5 years, 9 months ago

An ode to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh

The Hindu  

One of the first poems written in protest after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 is being republished to mark the centenary of the tragedy that galvanised the movement for Indian independence. Khooni Vaisakhi, a classic work of protest poetry by the late Nanak Singh, was translated by his grandson Navdeep Suri, who is India’s Ambassador to the UAE. The …

Deeply regret suffering caused due to Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British PM Theresa May
5 years, 9 months ago

Deeply regret suffering caused due to Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British PM Theresa May

India Today  

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday expressed "deep regret" for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, carried out by British colonial troops in India. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has also called the Jallianwala Bagh massacre a "deeply shameful" incident during his visit to India in 2013. This is the cross party letter signed by over 80 MPs calling …

100 years later: The many meanings of Jallianwala Bagh
5 years, 9 months ago

100 years later: The many meanings of Jallianwala Bagh

The Hindu  

It has often been said that Britain lost its empire the day when, a hundred years ago, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, 55, commanding a regiment of 50 Gurkha and Baluchi riflemen, ordered firing without warning upon an unarmed crowd of over 15,000 Indians gathered at an enclosure called the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, a stone’s throw from the Golden Temple. It …

Vicky Kaushal to play lead in Shoojit Sircar's biopic on Indian freedom fighter Udham Singh; film to release in 2020
5 years, 10 months ago

Vicky Kaushal to play lead in Shoojit Sircar's biopic on Indian freedom fighter Udham Singh; film to release in 2020

Firstpost  

Vicky Kaushal will essay the role of Udham Singh, who assassinated Michael O’Dwyer to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Following the monumental commercial success of Uri: The Surgical Strike, Vicky Kaushal is all set to play revolutionary Udham Singh in Shoojit Sircar’s next. Vicky Kaushal in Shoojit Sircar’s next film, titled #UdhamSingh. pic.twitter.com/hxTTajlRYP — taran adarsh March 4, 2019 …

In Jallianwala Bagh, 1919, Kishwar Desai documents little-known stories of events before and after the massacre
6 years, 2 months ago

In Jallianwala Bagh, 1919, Kishwar Desai documents little-known stories of events before and after the massacre

Firstpost  

In her book, Kishwar Desai focuses on those accounts of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which did not find a place in the mainstream narrative “The atrocities perpetuated at Amritsar have proved that Imperialism run mad is more dangerous, more vindictive, more inhuman, than a frenzied uncontrollable mob.” Kishwar Desai begins her book with words by Lala Lajpat Rai, which were …

Udham Singh: The avenger of Jallianwala Bagh massacre who also acted in Hollywood
6 years, 5 months ago

Udham Singh: The avenger of Jallianwala Bagh massacre who also acted in Hollywood

India Today  

Born on December 26, 1899, Udham Singh is one of the many freedom fighters who fill the youngsters with vigour and strength to do something for the nation. The name of Sardar Udham Singh is recorded as a revolutionary of Punjab in the fight for India's independence. Upon the end of this meeting, Udham Singh fired on Michael O Dwyer …

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