Aruna Asaf Ali - Wikipedia Aruna Asaf Ali This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2009 ) Aruna Asaf Ali Aruna Ganguly 16 July 1909 Kalka, Punjab, British India 29 July 1996 ( 1996 - 07 - 29 ) ( aged 87 ) New Delhi, India Nationality Indian Alma mater Sacred Heart Convent Occupation Teacher, socialist, independence activist, politician, newspaper publisher Political party Indian National Congress Communist Party of India Spouse ( s ) Asaf Ali ( 1888 - 1953 ) Awards Bharat Ratna ( 1997 ) Aruna Asaf Ali ( 16 July 1909 -- 29 July 1996 ), born Aruna Ganguly, was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942. After Independence, she remained active in politics, becoming Delhi 's first mayor in 1958. In the 1960s, she successfully started a media publishing house. She received India 's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1997. Contents 1 Early life 2 Freedom struggle : early days 3 Face of Quit India movement 4 Countdown to Independence 5 Post-Independence 6 Legacy 7 References 8 External links Early life Aruna Asaf Ali was born ( Aruna Ganguly ) on 16 July 1909 in Kalka, Punjab, British India ( now in Haryana, India ) into a Bengali Brahmo family. Her father Upendranath Ganguly hailed from Barisal district of Eastern Bengal ( now Bangladesh ) but settled in the United Province. He was a restaurant owner. Her mother Ambalika Devi was the daughter of Trailokyanath Sanyal, a renowned Brahmo leader who wrote many Brahmo hymns. Upendranath Ganguly 's younger brother Dhirendranath Ganguly ( DG ) was one of the earliest film directors. Another brother, Nagendranath, was a university professor who married Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore 's only surviving daughter Mira Devi. Aruna 's sister Purnima Banerjee was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. Aruna was educated at Sacred Heart Convent in Lahore and then at All Saints ' College in Nainital. After her graduation, she worked as a teacher at the Gokhale Memorial School in Calcutta. She met Asaf Ali, a leader in the Congress party, in Allahabad. They got married in 1928, despite parental opposition on grounds of religion and age ( he was a Muslim and her senior by more than 20 years ). My father was no more when Asaf and I married in September 1928. My paternal uncle Nagendranath Ganguly, a university professor who regarded himself as my guardian, said to relatives and friends that as far as he was concerned I was dead and he had performed my shraddh. -- Aruna Asaf Ali Freedom struggle : early days She was an active member of Congress Party after marrying Asaf Ali and participated in public processions during the Salt Satyagraha. She was arrested on the charge that she was a vagrant and hence not released in 1931 under the Gandhi - Irwin Pact which stipulated release of all political prisoners. Other women co-prisoners refused to leave the premises unless she was also released and gave in only after Mohandas K. Gandhi intervened. A public agitation secured her release. In 1932, she was held prisoner at the Tihar Jail where she protested the indifferent treatment of political prisoners by launching a hunger strike. Her efforts resulted in an improvement of conditions in the Tihar Jail but she was moved to Ambala and was subjected to solitary confinement. She was politically not very active after her release... but at the ending of 1942 she took part in underground movement. She was active in it. Face of Quit India movement On 8 August 1942, the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution at the Bombay session. The government responded by arresting the major leaders and all members of the Congress Working Committee and thus tried to pre-empt the movement from success. Young Aruna Asaf Ali presided over the remainder of the session on 9 August and hoisted the Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan. This marked the commencement of the movement. The police fired upon the assembly at the session. Aruna was dubbed the Heroine of the 1942 movement for her bravery in the face of danger and was called Grand Old Lady of the Independence movement in her later years. Despite absence of direct leadership, spontaneous protests and demonstrations were held all over the country, as an expression of desire of India 's youth to achieve independence... Countdown to independence An arrest warrant was issued in her name but she went underground to evade the arrest and started underground movement in year 1942. Her property was seized and sold. In the meanwhile, she also edited Inquilab, a monthly magazine of the Congress Party, along with Ram Manohar Lohia. In a 1944 issue, she exhorted youth to action by asking them to forget futile discussions about violence and non-violence and join the revolution. Leaders such as Jayaprakash Narayan and Aruna Asaf Ali were described as `` the Political children of Gandhi but recent students of Karl Marx. '' The government announced a reward of 5,000 rupees for her capture. She fell ill and was for a period hiding in Dr Joshi 's Hospital in Karol Bagh in Delhi. Mahatma Gandhi sent her a hand - written note to her to come out of hiding and surrender herself -- as her mission was accomplished and as she could utilize the reward amount for the Harijan cause. However, she came out of hiding only after the warrant against her was withdrawn in 1946. She treasured the note from the Mahatma and it adorned her drawing room. However, she also faced criticism from Gandhi for her support of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, a movement she saw as the single greatest unifying factor of Hindus and Muslims at a time that was the peak of the movement for Pakistan. Post-independence She was a member of the Congress Socialist Party, a caucus within the Congress Party for activists with socialist leanings. Disillusioned with the progress of the Congress Party on socialism she joined a new party, Socialist Party in 1948. She however left that party along with Edatata Narayanan and they visited Moscow along with Rajani Palme Dutt. Both of them joined the Communist Party of India in the early 1950s. On the personal front, she was bereaved when Asaf Ali died in 1953. In 1954, she helped form the National Federation of Indian Women, the women 's wing of CPI but left the party in 1956 following Nikita Khrushchev 's disowning of Stalin. In 1958, she was elected the first Mayor of Delhi. She was closely associated with social activists and secularists of her era like Krishna Menon, Vimla Kapoor, Guru Radha Kishan, Premsagar Gupta, Rajani Palme joti, Sarla Sharma and Subhadra Joshi for social welfare and development in Delhi. She and Narayanan started Link publishing house and published a daily newspaper, Patriot and a weekly, Link the same year. The publications became prestigious due to patronage of leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Krishna Menon and Biju Patnaik. Later she moved out of the publishing house due to internal politics, stunned by greed taking over the creed of her comrades. In 1964, she rejoined the Congress Party but stopped taking part in active politics. Despite reservations about the emergency, she remained close to Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. She died in New Delhi on 29 July 1996, aged 87. Legacy Aruna Asaf Ali was awarded International Lenin Peace Prize for the year 1964 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1991. She was awarded India 's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan in her lifetime in 1992, and finally the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1997. In 1998, a stamp commemorating her was issued. Aruna Asaf Ali marg in New Delhi was named in her honour. All India Minorities Front distributes the Dr Aruna Asaf Ali Sadbhawana Award annually. References Jump up ^ G.N.S. Raghavan ( 1999 ). Aruna Asaf Ali : A Compassionate Radical. National Book Trust. ISBN 9788123727622. Jump up ^ Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson, ed. ( 1997 ). Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521 - 59018 - 3. Jump up ^ Radha Kumar ( 1993 ). The History of Doing : An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women 's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800 - 1990. Zubaan. p. 68. Jump up ^ Verinder Grover ( 1993 ). Great Women of Modern India : Aruna Asaf Ali. Deep & Deep Publications. ISBN 9788171004621. Jump up ^ Singh, Kuldip ( 31 July 1996 ). `` Obituary : Aruna Asaf Ali ''. The Independent. Retrieved 21 August 2015. Jump up ^ `` List of the recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award ''. ICCR website. Jump up ^ `` Padma Awards Directory ( 1954 - 2007 ) '' ( PDF ). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 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Question: who was the heroine of the 1942 quit india movement
Answer: Aruna Asaf Ali