Aruna Asaf Ali  (English, Paperback, Raghavan G N S)

Aruna Asaf Ali is always remembered for her daring act of hoisting the tricolour at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Mumbai on 9 August 1942. A fiery political revolutionary during the struggle for independence. Aruna Asaf Ali became a constructive and compassionate social revolutionary after independence campaigning for the removal of poverty and illiteracy. Besides the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1992, she was posthumously honoured with the 'Bharat Ratna', the nation's highest honour for her services to the nation.