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Asianet News reporter Manu Sankar, who is covering the ongoing political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, speaks to harrowed vehicle owners waiting outside petrol pumps -- some for three days -- for fuel. The anger towards the Rajapaksa family and lopsided government policies is evident. 

A video clip shared by her party on social media showed Mamata interacting with women from self-help groups at the shop as she tried her hand at making the dumplings.

Among the two others hanged to death along with Bhagat Singh was Shivram Hari Rajguru. 

The video released by the Trinamool Congress showed Mamata stuffing the mashed potatoes with crispy hollow puris and and dipped them in tamarind water before serving them to people at a stall operated by women of a Self Help Group.

The Bengal partition of 1905 had led to an explosion of militant activities by revolutionary nationalists under Anusheelan Samiti and Jugantar. Far away from Bengal, in the deep south, a bunch of Tamil youths were also inspired by the Bengali revolutionaries. One such revolutionary was Vanchinatha Iyer.

Lakshmi was the second daughter of a freedom fighter, Ammu Swaminathan and S. Swaminathan, a top lawyer in Madras.

Usually, an autorickshaw is supposed to transport three passengers.  But now a video is going viral of an autorickshaw in which, believe it or not, there were 27 passengers.

The Punnapra Vayalar uprising was an agitation against both the native royal government as well as the foreign colonialists. It was also the first movement by the organised working class against both indigenous and foreign authorities.

It is well known that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the heart and soul of the Indian National Army. But it was another Bose from Bengal who handed over the reins of INA to Netaji. Rash Behari Bose.  

Aruna Asaf Ali courted arrest for participating in the Salt Satyagraha. She even held a fast in Tihar jail for the rights of political prisoners leading to her solitary confinement.