Chandra Shekhar Tiwari popularly known as Azad, was born on 23 July 1906 at Alirajpur in Bhabra, dist. Alirajpur of Madhya Pradesh, and died while battling the British on 27 February 1931 at the age of 24 in Alfred Bagh of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Azad is one of the most important and leading Indian revolutionaries, who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association after the death of its founder Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil and three other party pillars (Thakur Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri and Ashfaqulla Khan) with the support of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Bhagwati Charan Vohra, under the new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). He was the mentor of Bhagat Singh and chief strategist of the HSRA.
Early Life
After the first Indian Rebellion of 1857, he was one amongst the many Indian revolutionaries to use arms in their fight for independence against the British rulers. He was born to an impoverished Brahmin....
