Chapter 2 follows chronologically from Chapter 1, exploring Bhagat Singh’s contributions to clandestine revolutionary groups in North India and the militant gestures which announce his presence on the anti-colonial stage. The object is not to evaluate these political actions in terms of the ‘archic’ progression of the anti-colonial movement – that is, to measure their ‘success’ or ‘failure’ – but to read them as responding to a shifting, contingent present. A responsive, interruptive subjectivity is, I argue, at the heart of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ (‘Long Live Revolution’) – the famous slogan of Bhagat Singh’s Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). But what does it mean to commit to revolution in perpetuity? What form does this militant life take in the present? The chapter considers how the revolutionary comportment evoked by Bhagat Singh and his comrades constitutes a potentiality outside futures, founded on a relationship with the ‘truth’ of a given present. It considers the resonant appeal of this ‘way of being’ in politics – its tropes of sacrifice and partisan action – as well as the primacy of the gesture in the political lives and spectral afterlives of the HSRA.