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"Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor": Surya Sen - hero behind Chittagong armory raid & attack on Europeans only club that shook British like never before, brutally tortured and executed by British on Jan 12, 1934

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
A wanted poster of Surya Sen along with a cash amount of 10,000 takas was disseminated by the British government and the Inspector General of Police Division of Chittagong in 1932 immediately after the arms raid at Chittagong

"Heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life”: Samadhi of Hemachandra Vikramaditya, the last Hindu king to sit throne of Delhi, one of India's best military generals, achieving victory spree in 22 battles converted to Dargah

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
Elephant carrying the wounded Hemu was captured and led to the Mughal camp. Bairam Khan asked the 13-year-old Akbar to behead Hemu, but he refused to take the sword to a dying man

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins": Paona Brajabashi - Fearless Manipur General who valiantly led his 300 soldiers in one of the fiercest battles in history in the Battle of Khongjom against the British in 1891

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
Paona reportedly replied that death was more welcomed than treason. Paona took off the cloth wrapped around his headgear and asked the British Officer to behead him

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason": Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who coined the Hindu nationalist ideology of Hindutva is an essence of Bharat and will continue to inspire generations to come

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
Political prisoners were allotted to turn the oil mill. This singular work, as find place in almost every account of the survivors of the Cellular jail, was cruel and inhuman

“You just can’t beat a person who won’t give up”: Tigress Kanaklata Barua of 'Mrityu Vahini' roared, 'O Britishers! You can kill our bodies, not souls' while trying to hoist Indian Flag at police post before being shot & attaining martyrdom at age of 17

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
‘Do or die’ was their slogan firm. She was Kanaklata Barua, a 17-year-old teenager, who nurtured dreams of freeing Mother India from the clutches of the British

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins": Baji Rout, a boat boy - youngest martyr of India's freedom struggle who was manhandled, threatened & skull fractured but refused to ferry British police across the Brahmani River

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
It is unfortunate that we haven’t read about him in our History text books. Except in Odisha, the name of Baji Rout hardly finds a place in books and media

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened": Tarabai Bhosale - Maratha Queen who singlehandedly led a successful war against the forces of one of the mightiest rulers Aurangzeb

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
After Tarabai Bhosale assumed power, she became the supreme force of the Marathas. She regulated things so well that not a single Maratha leader acted without her order

"Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right": Story of an Unknown Hindu Yogi from the annals of freedom fights, who with a muscular build, sitting on a leopard skin killed a British Captain in front of the British Army in 1857

| Satyaagrah | Freedom Fighter
Throughout May and June 1857 more units of Indian troops mutinied against the British. Sepoy units in the south of India remained loyal, but in the north, many units of the Bengal Army turned on the British. And the uprising became extremely violent
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