1. Malati Devi Choudhury was an Indian civil rights and freedom activist and Gandhian.
16 Facts About Malati Choudhury
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Malati Choudhury was born in 1904 in an upper middle class Brahmo family.
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Malati Choudhury was the daughter of Barrister Kumud Nath Sen, whom she had lost when she was only two and a half years old, and Snehalata Sen, who brought her up.
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Malati Choudhury's mother Snehalata was a writer in her own right, and had translated some works of Tagore, as is seen from her book Jugalanjali.
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Malati Choudhury adopted to a completely different life style once she joined Rabindranath Tagore's Vishva-Bharati.
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Malati Choudhury was fortunate enough to have been deeply influenced by both Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Malati Choudhury came to Santiniketan in 1921, when she was only sixteen years old, and lived there for a little more than six years.
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Malati Choudhury came from Sabarmati Ashram at the instance of the Mahatma.
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Malati Choudhury had as batchmates G Ramachandran, B Gopala Reddy, and Syed Mujtaba Ali.
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Malati Choudhury was frank and outspoken, and was never afraid to speak up.
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Malati Choudhury was arrested several times with other women independence activists like Sarala Devi, Ramadevi Choudhury and others and was sent to jail.
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Malati Choudhury had organized the 'Krusaka Andolana' as part of the freedom struggle against the zamindars and moneylenders, who exploited the poor.
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Malati Choudhury had seen and experienced the untold sufferings of the people while walking through many villages in Orissa.
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Malati Choudhury had realized that women were victims of many superstitious beliefs, and they alone were to fight against superstitions for their own empowerment.
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Malati Choudhury had joined the Bhoodan Movement of Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
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Malati Choudhury lived an eventful life and died at the age of ninety-three.