Guru Radha Kishan

Guru Radha Kishan was born in 1925 on Krishna Janmashtami in Bid village of district Harda (previously in Hoshangabad district) of Madhya Pradesh in a Brahmin family of farmers. He had to experience the hardships of the life very early, as his father died while he was a child. It was the passion for studies and firm belief that education is a must for progress in life that he got himself enrolled for studies in a school at Chipawad near Khirkiya, which was miles away from his native village.

There he read a book authored by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the revolutionary struggle of Russia and an article about Indian revolutionaries Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Sukhdev Thapar, Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad. He began his revolutionary career influenced by the martyrdom of these revolutionaries and hoisted the tricolour in his school and was sent to a reformatory school by the colonial authorities. It was the period Mahatma Gandhi visited Harda in December, 1933 when he listened to Mahatma Gandhi and decided to leave his native place for the freedom struggle of India.