Khudiram Bose: Young Hero

Bengal has been a pioneer to make India free from the british rule in the pre-independence days where mothers lost their children and wives their husbands. But none had wept because the stake was too high, the chances too great and the ultimate result too fabulous to dream.

One of the the most remembered is Khudiram Bose, a freedom fighter, who was one of the youngest revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement and born on 3rd December 1889. It was this hero who threw the first bomb on the British who were crushing India. While at school, at the age of sixteen, he plunged into the war of independence to free mother India from the clutches of British rule.

At the age of nineteen while participating in the anti-colonial struggle against British imperialism, he was sentenced to death and became a martyr for the country. Shahid Khudiram Bose had always lived a virtuous and generous life. He also played the role of a savior when a river in Bengal flooded and was responsible for saving a number of lives.

Bose was inspired by his readings of the Bhagavad Gita, which helped him embrace revolutionary activities aimed at ending the British Raj. He was especially disillusioned with the British following the partition of Bengal conflagration in 1905. It was in his schooldays he was inspired by the fight against British supremacy.

Khudiram was tried and was sentenced to be hanged to death. On 11th August 1908, Khudiram went to the gallows in a calm manner. He faced death like a true martyr. He is hailed as the first martyr of organised revolutionary movement for India's freedom. He has become a legend on account of his fearlessness and valiant defiance of death.

Although he was not alive for 39 more years to see the dawn of Independence, he added one freedom struggle story in the Indian history that would make Indian's proud for ages.

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