In the year 1908, on this day, the young revolutionery Khudiram Bose
was hanged. He was the first martyr of Indian freedom struggle, born
and brought up in Bengal. A Bengali film was made on the basis of his
life. A station of Kolkata Metro Rail had been named after him. In
this picture you can see the statue of him, situated at the island
near Kolkata High Court. The newspaper of that day 11 August 1908
described: It was 6 am—the scheduled
time. People holding flower garlands
filled up the front rows of the crowd.
Upendranath Sen, the lawyer-journalist
of the Bengali news daily "Bengali", who
was close to Khudiram, reports having
reached the venue by 5 am, in a car with
all the necessary funerary arrangements
and clothes.
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A. B.
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