Jatindranath Mukherjee, born in 1879 in modern day Bangladesh, was a disciple of Swami Vivekananda and, inspired by the Master, took to the cause of a politically independent India. He rose to the occasion as a leading revolutionary, planning and executing several rebellions against the British officials. Jatin expressed his ideals in simple words: ‘Amra morbo, jagat jagbe’—’We shall die to awaken the nation’. Bagha Jatin, as he was known popularly, died from bullet wounds he sustained during the Battle of Balasore, in the year 1915.
