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BE PREPARED FOR GOOD AND MAKE WINNING AN ATTITUDE BAD: AYSUHMANN KHURRANA NOT HABIT: VICKY KAUSHAL ut your best foot forward at all times. When I came y school teachers would say that I am a born leader to Mumbai, I was not very sure of landing up with a because wherever an opportunity presented itself, I Pcommercial forget about the movies. But it did hap- Mwould take it up. Failure has never scared me. I think pen. I got roles that many people could die for. Many that makes my stint in Bollywood so valuable. I am not friends ask me this — how did you manage to get roles scared of box office failure. I am not afraid of landing up when you don’t have a godfather? I would say this — roles that don’t connect with the audience. I know I cannot because I decide my destiny and not the other way be the best in everything. You need to learn that too. Make around. To be a leader, you need to be prepared for winning an attitude, not a habit. As a leader, learn to take everything; the good, bad and the worse. mistakes in your stride. — Vicky Kaushal, joint winner of the —Ayushmann Khurrana, joint winner of the National Awards National Awards for best actor, Uri for Best Actor, Andhadhun

ith determination in the face of adversity, courage to look death in the eye and fuelled by an intense love for the nation, these women made sure that their participation in India’s struggle for freedom made a difference. Times NIE recounts their role in the W Independence movement and the various leadership lessons they imparted with their extraordinary grit and strength 3 ARUNA ASAF ALI 4 TARA RANI SRIVASTAVA he is popularly known as ‘The Grand ara Rani was born in a simple family in Saran, Bihar, S Old Lady’ of the In- and was married off to Phulendu Babu. They joined dependence Movement. She T the Quit India Movement in 1942, regulated protests was an Indian Independence and planned to raise the In- activist and a freedom fight- dian flag on the roof of the LAKSHMI SAHGAL er, best known for hoisting the Siwan Police Station. Gath- 5 Indian National Congress flag ering a crowd they began at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Aruna Asaf Ali believed their march towards the Siwan akshmi Sahgal aka Cap- Bombay during the Quit India selfless love for the nation Police Station, shouting ‘In- tain Lakshmi was a for- Movement. She also took part in the is the best form of love. quilab’. When they were march- Lmer Indian Army offi- Salt Satyagraha movement as well as Tara Rani in a freedom ing towards the thana, the police cer. She was a member of the other protest marches, and was im- She used to say, once you speech said — to be a opened fire. Phulendu fell to the Indian National Army (INA) prisoned for her impertinence. Instead have decided to lead your leader, behave like ground. Undeterred, Tara band- founded by Netaji Subhash ...and what they of bemoaning the incarceration and await- aged him with the help of her sari Chandra Bose and led it like team, do it with passion. ing release, she rallied together political pris- one. Lead from the and continued to lead the crowd a tigress in the struggle for oners and protested against the ill treatment be- Where there is no love, front and make sacri- towards the station shouting ‘In- freedom. She was in charge ing meted out to them, by launching a hungerstrike. there is no victory fices when need be quilab’ while holding aloft the In- of establishing and leading taught us dian flag. the Rani of Jhansi Regi- ment, comprising women soldiers. Also, before joining Kanaklata believed — BHIKAIJI CAMA INA she had served a sen- MATANGINI HAZRA once you have made 6 tence in a Burma prison for your decision, there her role in World War II. 1 n eminent member of the Indian Nationalist Movement, is no looking back. she was born as Bhikaiji Rustom Cama, on September 24, The moment you A 1861, in a Parsi family in Bombay. Well, we are talking about Who said women cannot start doubting your- none other than Madam Cama, who is a well known freedom fighter. Hailing from a well-to-do family, her father Sorabji Framji Bhikaji Cama is an exam- lead a team to the battle- self, the entire activi- Patel was a powerful member of the Parsi community. Madam ple of how if you are ground? Sahgal believed ty becomes pointless. Cama laid emphasis on equality between men and women. She determined to achieve that there is no job in the So, be sure and gave away all her assets to help an orphanage for young girls. something; give it all world that a man can do march ahead As an Indian ambassador she also travelled to Germany in 1907 to hoist the Indian flag. your effort. and a woman cannot

atangini Hazra KANAKLATA BARUA KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAY obody knows her by her name but she was known as Hazra taught us 2 MOOLMATI played an important role in the freedom M Gandhi Buri. 7 Nstruggle as the mother of Ram Prasad Bis- how with grit 8 She was a part of the anaklata Barua is also known as social reformer, Kamaladevi was mil. Ram Prasad, a revolutionary, was involved Quit India and Non-Co- and determina- Birbala. She was an Indian free- also a distinguished theatre ac- in the Mainpuri Conspiracy case of 1918 and operation Movements. tion, nothing is Kdom fighter from Assam. She Ator and played a very important the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925. In Gorakhpur While leading a proces- played a leading role in the Quit India role in India’s fight for Independence. Jail on Dec 19, 1927 he was arrested and hanged. sion with the Indian really impossi- Movement in 1942, at Barangabari, and She became the first woman from In- Moolmati, a simple woman, supported and flag, she didn’t flinch de- ble. As a leader, stood at the head of the women volun- dia to be arrested by the British gov- helped her son in his struggle for freedom . She spite being shot thrice. she showed all teers’ line with the national flag in her ernment for her active role as a pa- also went to Gorakhpur jail to see her son be- She kept shouting it takes is hand. Their aim was to hoist the flag at triotic leader. She was a remarkable Kamaladevi was known fore his hanging. Ram Prasad broke down upon “Vande Mataram”. The the British dominated Gohpur Police person, endearingly referred to as a It’s seeing his mother who remained unmoved. She courage and for her fearlessness and first statue of a Station by shouting the slogan, “British fearless and committed freedom fight- not the end but the was firm in her response and told him that she woman installed in passion imperialists should go back” etc., but er. She improved the socio- econom- commitment towards was proud to have a son like him. After his death Kolkata, in independ- was stopped by the soldiers. Though she ic condition of women in India, and the cause of women. process that matters too. in a speech at a public gathering she raised her ent India, was Hazra’s, tried convincing them that she was not also revived and promoted handi- She once fasted for Moolmati said in one of her other son’s hand and offered him to the Inde- in 1977. It stands at the spot where resorting to any violence, the British po- crafts and theatre. Kamaladevi was over 60 days before the speeches — if we are all united in pendence movement. Without her unstinting she was killed in Tamluk, near lice shot her dead, along with several an active participant in the Satya- our effort, no force can defeat support and belief in the freedom struggle, Ram Kolkata. Even Hazra Road in Kolkata other picketers. graha movement of 1930. Quit India movement Prasad Bismil might not have had the resolve is also named after her. us. In unity lies strength to pursue the path he had chosen. and in strength, victory

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To honour the armed INDIA, SANSKRIT & CHINA or sunset, you have to We’ve all had times where things have forces, the University of Sonal Srivastava: Can San- were found in China. feel what it conveys to gone according to plan, but what about through a contemplation of what thing.’ ‘Ah, let me have a good look South Carolina football skrit become the founda- China and India have been when they don’t? Things can go in all must I believe for that to have hap- at this.’. team used the backs of play- tion of stronger cultural friends for 2,000 years and they you: the significance, kinds of directions other than where pened? ers’ jerseys to display a lit- bonding between India can be friends now also. We the meaning of it. we thought they'd go. I don’t know any- When we can drill down to the basics tle patriotism. 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