Rahul Ramanathan

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<h2>Freedom fighter Salihan comes alive in sketches</h2>

In 1930, a 16-year-old Adivasi girl, Deimathi Dei Sabar, led an an uprising against the British in Saliha village in what is today Odisha's Nuapada district. In 2019, a 13-year-old schoolboy, Rahul Ramanathan, retells <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/when-salihan-took-on-the-raj">her story</a> in pictures in a PARI book.Published on April 4, 2019.

Freedom fighter Salihan comes alive in sketches

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Freedom fighter Salihan comes alive in sketches

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