On December 18, 1927, in Gorakhpur Central Jail, a mother waited to see her son for the last time. Hanged with mastermind Ram Prasad Bismil and his co-conspirator in the Kakori Conspiracy, was another poet and a brave freedom fighter -- Ashfaqullah Khan. The friendship between Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan wasn’t just a meeting of minds; it was …
It was Bismil Azimabadi of Patna who wrote "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qatil mein hai" in 1921, and it was Ram Prasad Bismil who immortalized the lines. This was also when he met and became close friends with other leading figures of the revolutionary freedom struggle such as Ashfaqullah Khan, Roshan Singh …
