Freedom Fighter Fights Off COVID
- August 16, 2021
On India’s 75th Independence Day, the news of 98-year-old freedom fighter Ishwarlal Dave beating Covid-19 has garnered attention. Dave attributed his recovery to yoga, which he has been practising for 20 years now. The freedom fighter and his wife were felicitated on the eve of Independence day by Ahmedabad District Collector, Sandip Sangle. Ishwarlar Dave also reminisced about the Quit India movement, which he was a part of, and about his various acts of rebellion and protest during the freedom struggle.
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Babasaheb Ambedkar
He was from a respectable family, well-educated and a lawyer, yet many Indians thought of him as ‘untouchable’. It was up to BR Ambedkar to teach his ‘depressed’ community to fight the injustices that it faced each day. Hard working and wise, he became the icon of the underprivileged. History, however, will remember him as the architect of India’s Constitution.
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