New Delhi: Marking Bhagat Singh’s 119th birth anniversary on 28th September 2026, Westland Non-Fiction announces the release of Bhagat Singh’s Pistol: The Hunt for a Martyr’s Legacy by award-winning investigative journalist Jupinderjit Singh.
Even eight decades after Bhagat Singh’s execution, the most crucial piece of evidence in his trial—the silver grey .32 Colt pistol he carried— remained missing until the author stumbled upon an article that offered a clue to its whereabouts. What followed was an investigation of a lifetime. Tracing leads through museums, archives and official records, Singh eventually located the pistol and restored it to its rightful place of honour. Combining investigative history, biography and mystery, Bhagat Singh’s Pistol retraces the extraordinary journey of this lost artefact while drawing on Bhagat Singh’s writings, letters and prison works to explore the intellectual evolution, political thought and ideals of one of India’s most enduring revolutionary figures.
Speaking about the book, the author Jupinderjit Singh says,”It was a blessing that I could trace the missing pistol. I cherish the rare opportunity I had to hold it in my hand — that was the moment I realised Bhagat Singh’s pistol carried a story that could only be told through his ideology. This book is a tribute to one of the greatest martyrs of the Indian freedom movement, and a humble attempt at investigative journalism.”