Ashfaqulla Khan was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement who had given away his life along with Ram Prasad Bismil. Bismil and Ashfaq, both were good friends and Urdu poets.Ashfaqullah Khan was given the death sentence and on 19th December,1927 this great martyr was hanged thus laying down his life for his motherland. The mausoleum of Ashfaqullah Khan in Shahjahanpur which has now become a memorial reminds us all of the selfless sacrifice he made for the country.The actions of Ashfaq Ullah Khan and his compatriots have recently been depicted in an Amir Khan starrer hit Bollywood movie Rang De Basanti, where his character role was played by the film actor Kunal Kapoor.[8]While he was confined in the solitary cell of Faizabad Jail, he started writing a diary. Few words of English are reproduced hereunder from his diary: Patrotism brings with him all sort of troubles and pains, but a man who chooses it,all the troubles and pains become comforts and ease for him. That is why we remain cheerful up to our aim. Only for the love of our country I suffer so much. There is no dream, and if there is,there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished. Brothers and friends will weep after me but I am weeping over their coldness, frigidity and tipidity towards our motherland. Weep not children, weep not elders; I am immortal ! I am immortal !![
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