A veteran freedom fighter, Sohan Singh Josh was born on 12th November, 1898 at village Chetnapura, District Amritsar. His father, Lal Singh, was keen on the good schooling of his son, but the difficulty was that there was no school nearby. Some years later when a school was opened, Sohan Singh, in spite of his comparatively advanced age, got admission in it. Afterwards he passed the Middle examination from a Church Mission School and the Matriculation from D.A.V. School, Amritsar. For higher education he joined the Khalsa College, Amritsar but had to leave it soon after on account of financial difficulties.Search for employment took him to Hubli and later to Bombay where he worked up to 1918 in the Censor's office. Coming back to his native village he began to work as a schoolteacher. But this was not for long, as his real interest lay in the country's struggle for freedom. In 1921 when the Akali movement started, he enthusiastically participated in it and traveled from village to village preaching against the Government. For his seditious activities he was arrested and tried in the Akali Leaders Conspiracy Case and sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment. At that time he was member of the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee and the Shiromani Akali Dal.Having a flair for writing, Sohan Singh adopted journalism as his major vehicle of national propaganda against the Government. He was associated with the rebel Sikh paper Akali brought out by the Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri. In 1925 he helped to bring out the revolutionary paper, Kirti. When in 1935 Kirti assumed the name of Parbhat, once again Josh was its Editor and Publisher. In 1943 the Communist Party of India brought out a new paper, Jang-I-Azadi and appointed Singh as its Editor.A confirmed Communist was he was, political freedom from the foreign yoke in 1947 failed to satisfy him and he continued his struggle for economic freedom. This again landed him in jail from 1949 to 1950, but his spirit remained undaunted and he continued his work through the columns of Nawan Zamana.