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AIDWA took the initiative to organize a two day workshop on health related issues for activists from the Hindi speaking states. The growing challenge to achieving the right to health care, in a…
Born on 8 January 1924 in Calcutta, was secretary of Bengal Provincial Students Federation from 1947 to 1951. Was at the forefront of mass-movements in Calcutta in 1945-6 demanding liberation of INA…
Popularly known as Communist Ramulamma, she was active in the struggles against bonded labour, agrarian struggles, guerrilla squad strikes against razakars and deshmukh landlords. She was well versed…
Chityala Ailamma (1919-1985) was a participant in the Telangana peasant armed struggle. She revolted against the feudal landlord Visunoori Ramchandra Reddy to protect her 4 acres of land, which she…
Recipient of the Lenin Prize for Peace and the Bharat Ratna, Aruna Asaf Ali was Delhi’s first Mayor. Born in 1909 in Kalka (now Haryana) in an orthodox Hindu Bengali family, she was educated in…
