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Bhagat Singh’s Greatest ‘Fear’
Politicians looking the other way or even fanning communal hatred. The media sensationalising news & playing to the gallery. If this sounds familiar today, you should read this piece on how Bhagat Singh, cited this as the biggest challenge to India...He was right!
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Kanaklata Barua: Assam’s Teenage Martyr
Exactly 78 years ago today, a young girl in Assam set out to hoist the national flag during the freedom struggle, but returned only to be draped in it. This is the story of Kanaklata Barua, the embodiment of Mahatma Gandhi’s call to ‘do or die’
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Subhadra Kumari Chauhan: The 20th Century ‘Jhansi Ki Rani’
A child poet, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan used her creativity as a weapon during the freedom struggle and went on to become India’s first woman satyagrahi to be sent to jail. Catch the story of a mother and a revolutionary for whom no challenge was too great to overcome.
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Hansa Mehta: India’s First Woman Vice-Chancellor
Did you know that a woman from Gujarat was responsible for forcing the United Nations to make the opening lines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights more gender-neutral? She broke caste barriers to marry the man she loved and also helped frame the Constitution of India. Read all about a forgotten hero named Hansa Mehta