Freedom fighter

“I yearned for my mother’s lap, cried myself to sleep every night, and dreaded the mornings. But Netaji said this is just the beginning. Desh ki ladai main jaana hai toh himmat rakho,” says Rama Khandwala.

When other freedom fighters were freed after the Gandhi-Irwin pact, this unsung hero was not let out -- such was the fear he inspired in the British.

Charles Tegart, the legendary police officer of the Empire, once told his colleagues that if Jatindranath were an Englishman, his statue would have been built next to Nelson’s at Trafalgar Square.

On the anniversary of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946, it’s time we remembered the brave young men who dared to defy an Empire and “energised the hearts and minds of our sailors, infantry soldiers, airmen ordinary mill hands, students, workers, citizens."

Heard about the famous 'Red Fort Trials'? Shah Nawaz Khan was one of the three INA heroes who stood in the dock for the first of these trials

"Treat me as an Indian woman and I shall be quite content," said the first European woman to be jailed as a Satyagrahi. #WomenInHistory

Delivered for 10 hours non-stop, Bhulabhai Desai's stirring defense of three #INA soldiers under trial had a profound impact on India's struggle for independence. #ForgottenHeroes

“The working of the Constitution will depend upon how the people will conduct themselves in the future, not on the actual execution of the law. So, I hope that in the course of time there will not be such a community known as Untouchables.”

The British once banned Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay for being 'seditious.' He brushed it off, stating that if his book disgruntled the reader against imperialism, then it had served its purpose! #DeathAnniversary #Legend #ForgottenHeroes

“He (and his team) would carry a typewriter around on their village visits. At every hamlet, he would instantly issue an on-spot official decree to set up a government school & appoint teachers from among the educated in the village."