The eternal jewels of freedom struggle

On August 15, as we celebrate the Independence Day, we also cherish 70 years of rich culture, tradition and sacrifices of countless people. Let’s take a glimpse into the life of some relentless patriots who laid down their lives for our wonderful today.

1

He was famed for his toughness. He was passed a cable announcing his wife’s death as he was at the Bombay court room. He glanced at it, thrust it into his pocket, and continued his speech without breaking off his sentence. Identify the famous Indian?

2

She was known as ‘Gandhi buri’, Bangla for old lady Gandhi. During the Quit India movement, the police shot her three times. She continued marching despite wounds to the forehead and both hands, and kept chanting

Vande Mataram. Identify.

3

He was the only American to be imprisoned for sedition. He wore

khadi, married an Indian, learnt Sanskrit, became a Hindu, set up a school and introduced apples to Himachal Pradesh. The British CID even maintained a special file on him. Identify him.

4 She and her husband worked with Mahatma Gandhi and Chandrashekhar Azad. She supplied revolvers to those involved in the Kakori operation. She hid the firearms in her undergarment and set out in

khadi clothes to deliver them with her three-year-old son in tow. Identify. 5

He was a Unani doctor born in the year that Queen Victoria died, walked with the Mahatma to pick up a grain of salt at Dandi, spent time at the jail with him and helped his father treat Rajendra Prasad. In 2015, he died at the age of 114 years. Who is he?