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Aruna Asaf Ali (née Ganguly) (Bengali pronunciation:; [1] 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942.
Khursheed Shahid began acting and singing at the age of nine. [6] [1] When Khursheed was in sixth grade, Congress leader Aruna Asaf Ali came to her school looking for someone young, and her classmates told Ms. Ali about her singing and acting talents. [1]
In 1928, he married Aruna Asaf Ali, a marriage that raised eyebrows on the grounds of religion (Asaf Ali was a Muslim while Aruna was a Hindu) and age difference (Aruna was 20 years junior to him). She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement , 1942.
She was the younger sister of independence activist and educator Aruna Asaf Ali. [4] Their father Upendranath Ganguly was a restaurant owner who hailed from Barisal district of Eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh) but settled in United Provinces. [5] Her mother Ambalika Devi was the daughter of Brahmo scholar Trailokyanath Sanyal who wrote many ...
Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000 [3]) was a Gandhian and independence activist of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio, also called the Secret Congress Radio, an underground radio station, which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Governor (of Sindh) – Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan – 1973 [241] Chair of Major Political Party (Pakistan Peoples Party) – Nusrat Bhutto – 1979 [242] Prime Minister – Benazir Bhutto – 1988 [243] Deputy Prime Minister – Nusrat Bhutto – 1980s [242] Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan – Fahmida Mirza – 2008 [244]
Usha and JD Vance’s children. J.D. Vance, Vice President-elect, and wife Usha Chilukuri Vance supervise their children Ewan Blaine, Mirabel Rose and Vivek play along the sea wall at Mar-a-Lago ...
As a student she took part in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and worked with Aruna Asaf Ali. [4] During this time, she relocated to Delhi where she went underground and edited a journal ‘Hamara Sangram’. She was arrested and after serving time at the Lahore Women's Central Jail, she started working among industrial workers.