Kartar Singh Sarabha: The fearless martyr who is relevant even in the present Punjab

Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces talks about the journey of a hero as distilled from myths all over the world. According to him a hero's journey begins and ends in the ordinary familiar world, but the rites of passage of his journey must necessarily pass through an unfamiliar, unknown and special world. It is in the transit through those unknown lands and back to the land of its origin that a hero's myth finds closure. This is the story of an unlikely Hero in the most extraordinary circumstances. A story which will forever remain…