Khudiram Bose: The Eighteen-Year-Old Who Walked to the Gallows SmilingKhudiram Bose threw a bomb meant for a hated magistrate, killed two women he never intended to touch, and paid for that mistake with the youngest martyrdom of India's freedom struggleKhudiram Bose (Img: Pinterest)Mumbai: He was eighteen years, seven months and eleven days old when the rope was placed around his neck. When Bengal was violently partitioned in 1905, sixteen-year-old Khudiram wasn't watching from the sidelines. The judge had received a letter warning of uprisings across two provinces if Khudiram wasn't hanged, and on 13 July 1908, the death sentence came down. A Life Too Short to Build Anything, Except a MemoryKhudiram Bose didn't live long enough to found a movement or build an institution. Khudiram Bose never got the chance to be forgotten.