Feel Proud!
For here we are now, at a comfort zone complainingly busy with personal goals and aspirations. The everyday troubles we face, we call them miseries. But there are some souls who have endured worse. They selflessly laid their lives for the country so that we can lead a fearless life, a carefree life where we don’t have to suffer at the merciless hands of alien enemies. Those are our Freedom Fighters who fought with just one focus- to see a free India.

Khudiram Bose, the Boy Who Died With a Smile on His Face!

Bose was influenced when he was just a boy and grew up to be a fierce revolutionary who loved his nation.

He was only 18 years old when he was sentenced to death for an attack and the subsequent killing of three Britishers in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, in 1908. One of the youngest revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle was born on December 3, 1889, in the small village of Habibpur in the Midnapore district of West Bengal.

Life was difficult for young Khudiram when he lost his mother at six, and his father, a year later. Cared by his elder sister, he lived in her house at Hatgachha village and attended Hamilton High School.
Khudiram was possessed by the spirit of the freedom movement when he heard a series of public lectures held in Medinipur, by Sri Aurobindo and Sister Nivedita. He became a volunteer when he was just 15, and courted his first arrest for distributing pamphlets against the British rule in India.
Khudiram was a part of the Anushilan Samiti, a Bengali organization that was active in propounding revolutionary violence as a means of driving the British out of India.
The Samiti was led by nationalists like Aurobindo Ghosh, and his brother, Barindra Ghosh.

The Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta, Douglas H Kingsford, infamous for handing out strong and harsh punishments to freedom fighters. He was a target of the revolutionaries. Prafulla and Khudiram ecided to carry out spy missions, trying to learn about Kingsford’s routine, attempting to find a loophole when the attack could be carried out. They attacked Kingsford’s carriage when it was leaving the club. As the horse carriage approached, Khudiram hurled a bomb at it.
An explosion followed, and the hit was a success! The carriage blew up and burst into flames. Prafulla and Khudiram, believing they had succeeded, melted into the darkness.

Khudiram, had continued running, and after doing so all night was tired and exhausted.
He was confronted by a couple of constables, who immediately suspected him, seeing that he was perspiring and exhausted. They asked him a few questions and decided to detain him, once their suspicions grew.
An order was issued to carry out a death sentence.
On the fateful day, the area near the prison was swelling with crowds, holding flower garlands. Khudiram reportedly walked up to the gallows confidently and was hung shortly after. His funeral procession went through Kolkata and was full of people offering flowers to his body.

At the tender age of 18, Khudiram was executed on August 11, 1908. His death sparked fervour among revolutionaries, who heaped honours upon him. The poet, Pitambar Das, wrote a song that resonated the passion that Khudiram had for his motherland.

Let us not forget the ones who were instrumental in giving us the great nation we know today. Let us remember the sacrifice of our Heroes who gave up their lives for our motherland.

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