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Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000 [3]) was a Gandhian and independence activist of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio, also called the Secret Congress Radio, an underground radio station, which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Aug 14, 2020 · Usha Mehta was just 22 when she went "underground" to run a secret radio station during India's fight for freedom from British colonial rule. BBC Gujarati's Parth Pandya and Ravi Parmar...
Usha Mehta was a freedom fighter known for her role in setting up the Congress Radio, an underground radio that functioned during the Quit India phase of the independence struggle. Congress radio played a crucial role in coordinating the various protests when the senior leadership were arrested by the British colonial authorities
Mar 8, 2023 · Usha Mehta, the inspiration behind Sara Ali Khan's 'Ae Watan Mere Watan' began as a 22-year-old freedom fighter in college. She was one of India's original radio journalists who ran the underground Congress Radio that aided in the nation's fight for independence.
May 13, 2021 · Overlooked No More: Usha Mehta, Freedom Fighter Against British Rule in India. At 22, she helped establish the underground station Congress Radio, which amplified Mahatma Gandhi’s message of...
Ae Watan Mere Watan came out on Amazon Prime on Thursday (March 21). The historical biography tells the story of Usha Mehta (played by Sara Ali Khan) and Congress Radio — an underground radio station which operated during the Quit India Movement in 1942. We recall. Quit India Movement: ‘Do or Die’ The Quit India Movement (QIM) was launched on August 8, 1942. “Do or Die. We shall either free India or die trying,” Mahatma Gandhi said in his now famous address at Bombay’s Gowalia ...
Jan 28, 2023 · In the upcoming biopic Ae Watan Mere Watan, actor Sarah Ali Khan will essay the role of freedom fighter Usha Mehta, who ran a secret radio station at a crucial point in India’s freedom struggle.
The historical biography tells the story of Usha Mehta, played by Sara Ali Khan, and Congress Radio — an underground radio station in 1942, during the Quit India Movement. The movement was launched on August 8, 1942, with Mahatma Gandhi’s famous speech in Bombay’s Gowalia Tank maidan: “Do or die. We shall either free India or die trying”. ... not even for propaganda, but for giving certain directives to the Indian people in their fight for freedom”.
Aug 14, 2021 · Responding to his call, a 22-year-old student of Wilson College, Usha Mehta, starts an underground radio station to counter the propaganda disseminated through All India Radio, the British ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Sara Ali Khan’s ‘Ae Watan Mere Watan’ follows the life of Usha Mehta and Congress Radio, an underground radio that operated during the Quit India Movement in 1942. The freedom fighter was an integral part of India’s independence struggle and helped amplify Mahatma Gandhi’s message for rebellion against the British Raj
