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India was going to be a country of over 300 million people, and it was crucial to refresh their memory about the country being their own. Keeping this in mind, Jawaharlal Nehru approached Badr-Ud-Din Faiz Tyabji—an important civil servant in the Constituent Assembly—to design India's national emblem.

Seed Syllables or Beejaksharas of Sanskrit written in Siddham are considered holy across Japan and can still be seen in many Japanese homes. Each deity worshipped in Japan is associated with one Beejakshara.

These women were amongst the initial members of the armed independence movement lead by prominent Bengali revolutionary, Surya Sen, whose names would forever remain synonymous with the Chittagong Uprising.

Abadi Bano Begum, who later came to be known in Indian history as 'Bi Amma' was one of the important voices of the freedom struggle. At the time, she was one of the first Muslim women to participate in politics actively.

“Saddened by his failure to bring about Indian independence, he projected his desire for self-determination onto the Mexican people,”

He fought what many historians describe as the fiercest battle against the British in Indian history. Yet few Indians know about this martyr. #ForgottenHeroes #IndianIndependence

Unearthed by Amedeo Maiuri in 1938, an Italian scholar, Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that lays testimony to the intensity of Indo-Roman trade relations dating back to the first-century AD.

On 8 August 1942, Gandhi addressed the masses from the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay (now Mumbai) and exhorted them to participate in the Quit India Movement.

A man who built an army of 500 to take on the British, Haipou Jadonang has been largely overlooked by writers and historians. It's time this changed. #ForgottenHeroes #IndianIndependence

Giving up his knighthood to support the Quit India Movement, he fought not just for India's freedom but also for its integrity! #ForgottenHeroes #IndianIndependence