Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya

Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya - He is one of the youngest revolutionaries to be hanged by the British Empire. He will forever remain an inspiration to Indian youth. Pradyot was sad to say goodbye because he would not see day when his mother land would be free from clutches of British, in his lifetime. But his letters ends on a happy note—his last written words were:

"Dear mother can your Pradyot ever die? Look around, the millions of faces, who are fighting for freedom are Pradyots smiling at you! In that way I am immortal, and mother, I will live on forever. Vande Mataram!”

His life story -

 He was born in November 1913 to Bhabataran Bhattacharya and Pankajini Devi of Daspur, Midnapore, in Bengal. Pradyot was a bright student. He completed his Matriculation Examination in the First Division. This lovely teenager with his innocent face had signed up for an underground revolutionary group. The group officially came into existence in 1928 as the “Bengal Volunteers” (or BV) under General Officer Commanding Subhash Chandra Bose. Under Major Satya Gupta, it soon joined forces with Hemchandra Ghosh’s Mukti Sangha. The combined group spread its wings into armed revolution. Pradyot was a secret member. His mentor was the stalwarts Jyotish Jowardar, a popular leader of the early Martial wing, and Dinesh Gupta, who is broadly remembered for some of his daredevil revolutionary activities, the pinnacle being the Writers’ Building Battle after which he was hanged at age 20.