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Inspiring Stories

  • Amiya Dutta
    13 Sep 2017

    Amiya Dutta came from a poor family in Bikrampur in Dhaka district (now Bangladesh). Was married off while still in her early teens. Amiya was deeply influenced by the underground activities of freedom fighters in her village – Bajrayogini– a hub of the Freedom Movement. With the encouragement by her brother, she became a member of the Communist Party in 1943.

  • Ahilya Rangnekar
    08 Sep 2017

    Ahilya came from a family influenced by the values of the social reform and all the four daughters and daughter-in-law completed their graduation. On 8th August 1942, in response to the declaration of the ‘Quit India’ movement, Ahilya joined the students in enforcing a strike in the college. On 15th August, hearing of the death of Gandhiji’s secretary Mahadevbhai Desai in jail, Ahilya led her student friends in a protest march, resulting in them being arrested. They were sent to Yeravda jail for three months as Class B prisoners.

  • Lakshmi Sehgal
    Lakshmi Sehgal
    08 Sep 2017

     

    Born in 1914 to S. Swaminadhan, lawyer and A.V Ammukutty, social worker and freedom fighter, Lakshmi was involved in the freedom struggle from an early age. she campaigned for temple entry for dalits and against child marriage and dowry.

  • Ashiana Rape case: It took 10 years to prove that accused was not a juvenile
    Ashiyana rape victim from Uttar Pradesh
    19 Jul 2017

    A 13 year old daughter of a rag picker was abducted by six men in a moving car when she was returning home with her brother after doing domestic work on May 2, 2005 in Lucknow. She was beaten with a belt, burnt by cigarettes and gang raped in the moving car. She was again gang raped and tortured in an isolated plot owned by the prime accused Gaurav Shukla. The victim was then thrown away by the rapists in a remote place. She returned home in a devastated condition. An F.I.R. was lodged in the Ashiyana police station in Lucknow.

  • A plan for constructing an Aqua food processing factory in Thundurru village was underway
    A plan for constructing an Aqua food processing factory in Thundurru village was underway.
    17 Jul 2017

    Areti Sathyavathi, age 55, belongs to Thundurru village. Her husband is a cancer patient. In spite of her difficulties, she has been agitating along with the villagers for a pollution-free village for the last two years.

     

  • Life and Work of Savitribai Phule
    Life and Work of Savitribai Phule
    17 Jul 2017

              The life of Savitribai, wife of Jotirao (or Jotiba, as he is fondly known in Marathi) Phule is a tale of great sacrifice and courage. Born on 3 January 1831 in a relatively well to do peasant family, Savitri grew to become the first woman from Maharashtra to contribute in revolutionizing ways of medieval thinking. Her life and work had many dimensions and continues more than a century after her death to inspire generations, not only of women but of dispossessed of all castes and communities.

  • Godavari Parulekar
    Godavari Parulekar
    25 Mar 2017

    Born on August 14, 1907, Godavari Parulekar was a freedom fighter, a militant leader of the Warli Adivasi Revolt, a founder of the Maharashtra Rajya Kisan Sabha, the only woman president of the All India Kisan Sabha, member of the CPI(M) Central Committee for a quarter century, author of the celebrated work Adivasis Revolt, the first woman law graduate in Maharashtra, a dedicated social worker and a legendary leader of the Communist

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