Author: G N S Raghavan
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 183
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123727623
Description
A fair and objective assessment of an exceptional personality as also a true and faithful account of the most important facts in her eventful life.
Aruna Asaf Ali is always remembered for her daring act of hoisting the tricolor at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Mumbai on 9 August 1942. A fiery political revolutionary during the struggle for independence, she became a constructive and compassionate social revolutionary after independence campaigning for the removal of poverty and illiteracy. Besides the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding , she was posthumously honored with the Bharat Ratna, the nation's highest honor for her services to the nation.
THE AUTHOR
G N S RAGHAVAN, a journalist of repute, was closely associated with Aruna Asaf Ali. He worked with the Times of India, Thought and Indian Express, and was Secretary of Second Press Commission. Among his important publications are: Private Face of a Public Person - A Study of Jawaharlal Nehru, The resurgence of Indian Women.
Contents
Foreword
Brahmo Lineage, Christian Schooling
A 'Self-Chosen' Marriage
Desh Savika
Recollections of Quit India
Dismay at Drift to Partition
Between Gandhi and Marc
Link Between Congress and CPI
Culturally Rooted Feminism
Mature Humanist Perceptions
Sad End, Radiant Memories