Aruna Asif Ali was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for the reason, she hoisted the Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan and earned the epithet “Heroine of the 1942 movement” & “Grand Old Lady of Independence” as all the senior leaders of the Congress were in jail at that time and the Quit India Movement was without any leader.
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Aruna Asif Ali was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for the reason, she hoisted the Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Mumbai and earned the epithet “Heroine of the 1942 movement” & “Grand Old Lady of Independence” as all the senior leaders of the Congress were in jail at that time and the Quit India Movement was without any leader. Her this act inspired people to have faith despite the absence of direct leadership, .
She edited the Congress party’s monthly magazine ‘Inquilab‘. In order to make her object reach maximum people; she started a journal called ‘Link’ and also wrote a column in the newspaper ‘Patriot’. She actively participated in the Salt Satyagraha in 1930. It was then that she was arrested for the first time, on the charges of being a nomad.
This remarkable lady was elected as the first Mayor of Delhi in 1958. She was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1964. Padma Vibhusan which she received during her lifetime in 1992 and the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1997. ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Independence Movement in 1998, a stamp commemorating her was issued.
