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Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000) 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...
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.
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.
Mar 22, 2024 · Usha Mehta was born in a village named Saras, near Surat in Gujarat in 1920. She was a true Gandhian at heart and was popularly known as Ushaben. At the age of eight in 1928, she participated in a protest march against the Simon Commission.
Dr Usha Mehta was born on 25th March 1920 in Saras village near Surat (Gujarat). Her role in India’s freedom struggle was unique. As a little girl of five, she first saw Gandhiji during his visit to the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.
Mar 21, 2024 · Usha Mehta was released from Pune’s Yerawada Jail in March 1946, and hailed in the nationalist media as “Radio-ben”. Her ill health kept her out of active politics in independent India, but she remained a staunch Gandhian till the very end.
Mar 24, 2024 · 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”.
May 13, 2021 · When Mahatma Gandhi gave his famous “Do or Die” speech on Aug. 8, 1942, galvanizing Indians to demand the end of British rule, Usha Mehta heeded the call.
Dr. Usha Mehta was a Gandhian and freedom fighter who is also known for her efforts in organising the Congress Radio, a clandestine radio station to spread nationalistic fervor at a time when the country was vehemently fighting the British.
