Why I Am An Atheist and Other Letters was written by Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, in 1930, in Lahore Central Jail. These writings were a reply to his religious friends who were of the opinion that Bhagat Singh became an atheist because of his vanity.
Bhagat Singh (September 1907 – 23 March, 1931) was a charismatic Indian revolutionary. He took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in Punjab region, and after his execution at age 23 into a martyr and folk hero in Northern India.
Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, he electrified a growing militancy in India in the 1930s, and prompted urgent introspection within the Indian National Congress's nonviolent but eventually successful campaign for India’s independence.
