The boat-shaped hat many of the men wore can also be seen here, alongside the anklets Anjali wears, the tiffin she takes to school, the jasmine flowers she puts in her hair, and the peacock feathers she loves.Ī family picture with Anasuyabai Kale on the far right from pre-independence India.

Most freedom fighters wore simple white khadi clothes. You can see what a fancy ghagra-choli would look like, next to khadi. This one hadn’t been used in decades when the picture was taken, and the door was rusted.Īnd here are some images of some of the items mentioned in the story. Here is an example of an outhouse, the kind that needed to be manually cleaned of its waste. Here is an example of a tiffin kids used to carry their lunches to school in. Here is the hill Anjali and Irfaan use as a shortcut to and from the alley behind her house. The idea came to me from this image on a pillar outside my dad’s childhood home in India. The opening image of AHIMSA is a Q being painted on a pillar. Below is a copy of one of the letters from Gandhi to her. This Study Guide consists of approximately 82 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi during her time as a freedom fighter. She draws inspiration from her own family history. It was her determination and persistence that made me want to write AHIMSA.Īnasuyabai Kale met with Dr. Supriya Kelkar doesn’t shy away from the reality that progress can sometimes be slow and one must persist even when all hope seems gone. Anasuyabai Kale was a freedom fighter who fought for victims of violence, for women’s rights, successfully commuted the death-sentences of some young men arrested during a riot, was jailed for her participation in the movement, and later went on to become a two-term congresswoman after independence. This is Anasuyabai Kale, my great-grandmother, with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India.

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