Sohan Singh Bhakna was born at the beginning of January 1870 at his maternal home in the village Khutrae Khurd, near Guru Ka Bagh, in Amritsar. The suffix – Bhakna, with his name, does not denote his surname, but an identity, along with others, appropriate to his village. However, in the later years of his life, an honorific, Baba (used particularly in Punjab for a respectable aged person) was attached to his name. Now, he is being respectfully remembered as Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna by people all over the world. Like him, most of the Ghadarites instantly got the epithet of Ghadri Babey because after they were released from the jails by the colonial authorities, they were all aged persons with grey hair. In 1909, he migrated to the United States of America in search of greener pastures. Here, he suffered racial discrimination and humiliation from the native white citizens. He along with other Indian immigrants founded the Ghadar Party with the aim of liberating India from the clutches of British rule. He invited Lala Har Dayal to take the responsibility of editing the party’s mouthpiece Ghadar. With the outbreak of WWI, he along with several Ghadar Party members returned to India. On board, at Calcutta, he was arrested. He was tried in the first Lahore Conspiracy Case. Judges awarded him a death sentence but later Lord Hardinge, the then Viceroy, commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. After suffering a lot in Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Cellular and other jails, he was released in 1930. He took part in Left and peasant movements against the British. He became a respected leader of the people. After independence, he lived in his home at Bhakna. On 20 December, he left for his heavenly abode after a short illness.