10 Forgotten Martyrs of India's Freedom Struggle

2. TIRUPPUR KUMARAN

Kumaran, a revolutionary born in the Erode district of Tamilnadu participated in the Indian freedom movement. One day while taking part in a freedom march in Tiruppur,  he was asked by the police to drop the congress flag which he was holding.

The police beat him to death on the street in front of hundreds of people for disobeying their order. Unable to resist the terrible torture he fell down on the ground and died but still held the flag high.

3. RAUT BAJI
Raut Baji was born as the son of Shri Hari Raut, a boatman on 1925 at Nilkantha­pur, Distt. Dhenkanal, of Orissa. In 1938 when officials of the state police asked him to take them across the Brahmini river he refused saying that they were the enemy of the people.

The twelve-year-old boy was brutalized leaving a fracture in his skull. However Baji raised an alarm and warned the villagers about the arrival of the soldiers before he took his last breath. Several villagers were killed in firing by the troops however the bravery and patriotism shown by the young boy has become the theme for the famous Oriya poem "Boatman" by Sachi Routray.