An Excerpt from Gandhi's article in Young India :

Bhagat Singh and his two associates have been hanged. The Congress made many attempts to save their lives and the Government entertained many hopes of it, but all has been in a vain.
Bhagat Singh did not wish to live. He refused to apologize, or even file an appeal. Bhagat Singh was not a devotee of non-violence, but he did not subscribe to the religion of violence. He took to violence due to helplessness and to defend his homeland. In his last letter, Bhagat Singh wrote --" I have been arrested while waging a war. For me there can be no gallows. Put me into the mouth of a cannon and blow me off." These heroes had conquered the fear of death. Let us bow to them a thousand times for their heroism.
But we should not imitate their act. In our land of millions of destitute and crippled people, if we take to the practice of seeking justice through murder, there will be a terrifying situation. Our poor people will become victims of our atrocities. By making a dharma of violence, we shall be reaping the fruit of our own actions.
Hence, though we praise the courage of these brave men, we should never countenance their activities. Our dharma is to swallow our anger, abide by the discipline of non-violence and carry out our duty.

March 29, 1931

I am not a propagandist for non-violence and also not for violence alone too. As Bhagat Singh says, the idea lives on, it doesn't die with a person. The idea is, of 'to react', rather than being a mute spectator to the atrocities happening around us. A Reaction is not always accompanied by violent methods as devised by many of the non-violent political parties of today while carrying out their agitations and protests non-violently. Violence shouldn't be a fall out of a reaction. Proper channeling of violence can be patriotic. Violence in the war against ant-national forces is called patriotism not an act of uncontrolled aggression. None of the politically associated people ever talk about the revolutionaries, none laud about their contributions. Though they all have a thousand tongues when speaking about the non-violent freedom fighting goats. It took Bhagat Singh to explode a small non-violent bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly to make the deaf hear.

We may not know what it takes to make the current breed of deaf politicians hear.

Speaking of the power or will to react, a news in the political circles some days ago comes into my mind. The current main opposition party-aspiring PM charging the current PM of lacking the backbone to go after the terrorists, 26/11 being attributed as a result of this. And the current Home Minister accusing the former government's Home Minister of bowing to the demands of the terrorists during the Kandhahar aircraft hijack drama. Some hundreds of passengers were held hostage in a foriegn country by terrorist hijackers demanding release of some of the dangerous terrorists who wer languishing in Indian jails. Whole through the hostage situation, the country witnessed protests, agitations taken out by the relatives of the hostages, NGOs, demanding action from the government that can guarantee a safe release for the hostages. The hostage situation played on for a week and ultimately the Foreign Minister had to accompany those terrorists on their flight to freedom, the released hostages touched down back home amidst all the cheers and celebrations. One of the released terrorists was instrumental in planning and executing the Parliament attack of 2003 and maybe what not after that.