What can we learn today from these two visionaries who differed greatly in ideology but shared a deep mutual respect and admiration?
In the leafy and expansive IIT Kharagpur campus, stands an old colonial style building with sloping roofs known as Shaheed Bhawan.
Built in the early 20th century, this was originally established as a detention camp called the Hijli Detention Camp to house revolutionaries and participants of the non- cooperation movement.
In September 1931, in a firing incident, two inmates, Santosh Mitra and Tarakeshwar Sengupta, were shot dead by the British police guards.