"Chu Kaar Az Hamha Heelte Dar Guzast, Halal Ast Burdan Ba Shamsheer Dast!" It was with a flourish of his kirpan on stage and with the chants of these Persian couplets that Jathedar Kishan Singh Gargaj used to start his address amid the incensed gatherings of a 1920s Punjab, seething with anger against the British rule.