bal gangadhar tilak

Born in a well-cultured Brahim family on July 23, 1856 in Ratangari, Maharashtra, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a multifacet personality. He is considered to be the Father of Indian Unrest. He was a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, mathematics, astronomy and Hinduism.

He started the celebrations of Ganapati Festival and Shivaji Jayanti to bring people close together and join the nationalist movement against British. He launched Swadeshi Movenment and believed that Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it With the goal of Swaraj, he also built Home Rule League. e was constantly fighting against injustice and one sad day on August 1, 1920, he died.

Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13, 1879, in a house of intellectuals, poets, philosophers and revolutionaries. Sarojini was a combination of all a good poetess, intelligent, philosopher, singer and a true freedom fighter. Sarojini joined the Indian independence movement in 1905 and came in contact with various other freedom fighters. In 1916, she met Mahatma Gandhi and was motivated to start her career as a freedom fighter.
In 1925, she presided over the annual session of Indian National Congress and later participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement. She was arrested in 1942 during the Quit India Movement and was imprisoned for several months.

Naidu vibrantly fought for the freedom of the country but she could not enjoy the freedom for long. She died in her office on March 2, 1949.
Baba Amte: (December 26, 1914 February 9, 2008) was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy. He spent some time at Sevagram ashram of Mahatma Gandhi, and became a follower of Gandhism for the rest of his life. He believed in Gandhi's concept of a selfsufficient village industry that empowers seemingly helpless people, and successfully brought

his ideas into practice at Anandwan. He practiced various aspects of Gandhism, including yarn spinning using a charkha and wearing khadi. Amte founded three ashrams for treatment and rehabilitation of leprosy patients, disabled people, and people from marginalized sections of the society in Maharashtra, India.