Some Heros of Our Country

1931, 1st Indian Flag adopted by Congress

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, 15th Aug'1947

Independence, the most desired word for us. I have always dream about the freedom fighters who sacrificed their life for India. I always want to collect their stories, their pictures and their sacrifice.

Few I have posted here.

Khudiram Bose:

He was the first youngest freedom fighter. He was hanged at the age of 19 (August 19, 1908).

He never feared for death.

He was under aged to give death sentence. The judges asked for life imprisonment, but he had chosen death. He wanted to inspire the youth of India to help and free the motherland from British.

His death inspired lot of Indian youth not only in India, but also the Indians who were staying abroad.

But the one thing that surprised everyone was that as he was hanged he was still smiling.




Madan Lal Dhingra:

Madan Lal Dhingra (1887 - 1909) was an Indian Indian freedom fighter ,political activist, a revolutionatry studying in England, where he killed Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a British official, which is hailed as one of the first acts of revolution (killing an invader on his own land) in the Indian independence movement in the 20th century.

This statement was said just before he died at the gallows:

I believe that a nation held down by foreign bayonets is in a perpetual state of war. Since open battle is rendered impossible to a disarmed race, I attacked by surprise. Since guns were denied to me I drew forth my pistol and fired. Poor in health and intellect, a son like myself has nothing else to offer to the mother but his own blood. And so I have sacrificed the same on her altar. The only lesson required in India at present is to learn how to die, and the only way to teach it is by dying ourselves. My only prayer to God is that I may be re-born of the same mother and I may re-die in the same sacred cause till the cause is successful. Vande Mataram!"

Benoy-Badal-Dinesh (Benoy Basu, Badal Gupta, Dinesh Gupta):



















Benoy Basu

















Badal Gupta












Dinesh Gupta

3 heroes, 3 talented students...just in their young age they have sacrificed their life for motherland.

Benoy Basu (22 yrs), Badal Gupta (19 yrs) and Dinesh Gupta (18 yrs) On 8 December 1930, went to kill Col NS Simpson at Writer's Building,The Inspector General of Prisons, who was infamous for the brutal oppression on the prisoners in the jails.

Entered the Writer's Building dressed in European costume and killed Simpson.