Many of us might not have heard about this young revolutionary. And those who have heard may not remember that on this day one hundred years ago he had attained martyrdom. I too, had till I saw it on today’s Times of India.
Can we imagine a boy packed with revolutionary ideas, devoted to fight against the Britishers at the age of 16 and hanged to death at the age of 19? That was Shaheed Khudiram Bose, who was born on 3rd Dec 1889 and hanged on 11th August 1908.
And it is said that he had Bhagwat Geeta in his hands and he was smiling as he was hanged. The crime he was caught for was killing two British ladies. In fact he alongwith Prafulla Chaki had aimed to assassinate Kingsford , the Calcutta Presidency Magistrate, by planting bombs at Muzaffarpur, but ended up killing the two British ladies alongwith their servant, by mistake.
I salute this great Martyr on this great day.
