I remember having heard of my maternal grandfather who fought for

the freedom of the country. His tireless struggle for freedom earned
him the respect of everyone. His village had no electricity, water was
scarce, and a train which passed by the village once a day was the
only connection to the rest of the world.
At a time when the Swadeshi movement was gaining in popularity, a young
man was expelled from school for wearing a gandhi cap. But that did not
affect his will. My grandfather grew up to be a strong follower of Gandhian
ideology. Inspired by the Swadeshi movement, he quit his government job
and joined the Khadi movement. was one among the first few  to promote
Khadi in chhattisgarh. As a part of it, he established a Gandhi Mandiram at
his village.
 
He was arrested almost every other month for his protest against the
British.To make his jail term bearable, where the British motive was to break
the moral of the fighters, my grandfather started following a difficult lifestyle
even when he was at home.He used to sleep under heavy quilts during
summers and with minimum clothing during the winters. His freedom
struggle was passed on as bedtime stories by her grandmother.