Bhabani Mahato strongly disavows any role in the freedom struggle. But on learning her story at her home in West Bengal's Puruliya district, we conclude otherwise and marvel at her sacrifice for the struggle

One of India’s last living freedom fighters, Bhagat Singh Jhuggian of Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, didn’t stop at battling the British Raj. To this day, he still fights for farmers and workers – at age 93

N. Sankariah is one of India’s last living freedom fighters. Speaking to PARI in Chennai, he tells us the astonishing story of his struggles against the British Raj – in public, in prison and underground

Now 101 years old, Ganpati Patil recalls his quiet contribution to India’s freedom struggle and his more overt gift to the development of Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district after 1947

TEN TALES OF FREEDOM – 9: The impoverished INA freedom fighter whose only demand of her nation was recognition. And so the ageing soldier's fight continued even six decades after Independence

Hausabai Patil, now 91, was with the revolutionary underground that carried out audacious attacks on British offices, and looted armouries, buses and police stations in the Satara region in Maharashtra from 1943-46

TEN TALES OF FREEDOM – 1: Demathi Dei Sabar and her friends took on gun-toting British officers with lathis in Nuapada, Odisha

TEN TALES OF FREEDOM – 2: When poor Odiya villagers took over and tried to run the Sambalpur court

TEN TALES OF FREEDOM – 10: Baji Mohammed, the man whose non-violent struggles continued 60 years after Independence