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Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav  Nation





















                                      BRAVE WARRIORS WHO


                           SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR


                                FREEDOM














            Countless Indian warriors sacrificed their
            lives for India's freedom. There were                RAMVRIKSHA BENIPURI:
            crazy people in the freedom struggle
            who dedicated their entire lives to the               A LITERARY
            cause of liberty. This freedom struggle               GIANT AND A
            was fought in both non-violent and
            revolutionary ways. Not only that, but                GREAT FREEDOM
            writers also played an important role in
            this fight, as their writings gave a boost            FIGHTER
            to the movements in the country. Among
            such writers are Ramvriksha Benipuri
            and Sakharam Ganesh Deoskar, who                          Born: 23 December 1899, Died: 9 September 1968
            revived the spirit of devoting everything                  he  great  writer  and  social  reformer
            to the freedom struggle through the                    TRamvriksh Benipuri, who held the torch of
            revolutionary edge of words rather than                 revolution  with  the  edge  of  words  for  India's
            the sword. The stories of Ramvriksha                    independence,  was  born  on  December  23,
            Benipuri, Sakharam Ganesh Deoskar,                      1899, in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Upset by
            revolutionary Rajendra Nath Lahiri,                     the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh, he jumped
            and Gandhian Krishna Ballabh Sahai                      into  the  freedom  movement.  Benipuri  first
                                                                    took  an  active  part  in  the  movement  against
            are featured in the Amrit Mahotsav of                   the  Rowlatt  Act,  and  when  Mahatma  Gandhi
            Independence series in this issue.



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