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NALBARI: Kamala Barman, an activist of the freedom movement in Assam still regrets the independence of 1947 and said that sans economic freedom of every individual, independence is a showpiece. Born in 1932 at Belsor she joined the armed forces of the movement following the steps of Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha and actively took part against racism and gender discrimination through Nari Mukti Sangha. She with other activists established 11 night schools for women education in rural areas of Kamrup district.
Kamala Barman was jailed and was kept in Shillong Jail for many days. Later, following the steps of Gandhi during the China war in 1962 she engaged herself in volunteering weaving bandages, collecting public donations, treating the wounded soldiers. "Against democracy individualistic politics can't be tolerated at any rate by any activist," she said. Kamala Barman, the founder of Nari Mukti Sangha in undivided Kamrup district during the independence movement is still deprived of freedom fighters' pension. She regrets that political intervention in granting freedom fighters' pension is an example of curtailing individual freedom even after 75 years of independence.
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