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Shyamlal Gupta was born on 9 September 1896 in Dosar Vaishya community to Visheshwar Prasad and Kaushalya Devi as their youngest son at General Ganj area in Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Refusing to join the family business, he took up teaching as a career and worked at various government schools in Kanpur, participating the Indian freedom struggle simultaneously. His chance meeting with Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi at one of the conventions of the Indian National Congress brought him the charge of the freedom campaigns of Fatehpur town. He was arrested by the British in 1921 and on release from jail, he started working underground.
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He was arrested again twice, in 1930 and 1944 and was sent to jail on both occasions. Gupta held the post of the president of the Fatehpur district congress committee for 19 years. He was known to have avoided using footwear and umbrellas till Indian independence, following a personal vow. He died on 10 August 1977, at the age of 81.
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As an honour, Gupta was selected to sing the flag song on 15 August 1952 during the Independence Day celebrations. During the Republic Day celebrations in 1972, Gupta was felicitated by the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, with a scroll of honour. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1969.Two decades after his death, on 4 March 1997, Shankar Dayal Sharma, then president of India, released a postage stamp in his honour.
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The song was originally written by Gupta in March 1924 as a patriotic poem and was released by Khanna Press in Kanpur, selling over 5000 copies.The Indian National Congress adopted the song as the official flag song in 1924 and it was first sung at the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs' Day on 13 April 1924 at Phool Bagh in Kanpur, a function attended by Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1938, Sarojini Naidu presented the song at the Haripura Session of the Indian National Congress in the presence of freedom leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Govind Vallabh Pant, Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahadev Desai and Purushottam Das Tandon.
A decade later, the song was featured in the film, Azadi ki Raah Par, released in 1948. The film was directed by Lalit Chandra Mehta and had Prithviraj Kapoor and Vanamala Pawar in the lead roles.The song, composed by Shekhar Kalyan and sung by Sarojini Naidu, is reported to have instilled a sense of patriotism among Indians during the pre-independence period. It is sung every year during the flag hoisting ceremony at the Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations.
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