Forthwith the government arrested all the major leaders besides all members of the Congress Working Committee, in a bid to pre-empt success of the movement. On 8 August 1942, the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution at its Bomb a y session. The struggle for independence had reached its pinnacle. Then came the momentous period of her life. Following Gandhiji’s intervention and a public outcry, Aruna Asaf Ali walked free. In solidarity with other women prisoners, she refused to leave the premises unless the others also released. She remained in prison even after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931, when all political prisoners were released. She participated in public processions during the Salt Satyagraha (1930) and was arrested on charges of being a vagrant. Owing to her enthusiasm and zeal, she soon became an important member of the Congress. A staunch Congressman, he inspired Aruna to join the party. Asaf Ali was one of the three lawyers who defended Bhagat Singh and his accomplice Batukeshwar Dutt during their trial.Īlso Read: 6 Strikes By Indian Women That Will Inspire YouĪsaf Ali moulded his wife’s mindset by introducing her to authors like Virginia Woolf, Shaw and Marx among others. They were so devoted and dedicated towards their motherland that the couple avoided raising a family. Their married life was by and large peaceful. Though Asaf Ali planned to leave his ancestral home in Old Delhi’s dingy Kucha Chelan locality and move to the posh Civil Lines area, yet she refused because she had no wish to separate Ali from his doting mother Akbari Begum. After her marriage, Aruna moved in with her husband’s family. Rajgopalachari and Maulana Azad blessed the newly-weds. However, well-known profiles from the freedom struggle such as Gandhi, Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, C. My paternal uncle Nagendranath Ganguly, a university professor who regarded himself as my guardian, said to relatives and friends that as far as he was concerned I was dead and he had performed my shraddh”Īruna Asaf Ali with Jawaharlal Nehru. “My father was no more when Asaf and I married in September 1928. In one of her numerous biographies Aruna Asaf Ali is quoted saying: In the teeth of vehement opposition from both their families, owing to obvious socio-cultural-religious differences, they went ahead with their plans.
Their ideology and taste were so similar that an age difference of 21 years notwithstanding, they were determined to tie the knot. In Allahabad, she came in contact with a progressive barrister by the name of Asaf Ali. In 1928, when Aruna was barely out of her teens, a chance meeting changed her life forever. After her graduation, she taught at the prestigious Gokhale Memorial School in Calcutta. In an age when the bulk of Indian women were not allowed to study, Aruna received the best possible education: schooling at Sacred Heart Convent, Lahore, followed by All Saints’ College, Nainital.
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