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. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi during her time as a freedom fighter. It was her determination and persistence that made me want to write AHIMSA.Īnasuyabai Kale met with Dr. 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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