Shiv Verma, Bhagat Singh’s close associate and founder-member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, provides the following annotation on Baba Randhir Singh’s remark: “Baba Randhir Singh… was a God-fearing religious man. It pained him to learn that Bhagat Singh was a non-believer. He somehow managed to see Bhagat Singh in the condemned cell and tried to convince him about the existence of God, but failed. Baba lost his temper and said tauntingly: ‘You are giddy with fame and have developed an ego which is standing like a black curtain between you and the God’.” Why I am an atheist, Frontline Magazine Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007
