GUWAHATI:
A 17-year-old girl, Ashmita Paul hailing from Assam’s capital city Guwahati has written out a special letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to include the life stories of brave daughter Kanaklata Baruah, who played a pivotal role in country’s freedom movement against the British in the curriculum of each and every school which dots the country.
Kanaklata was an inspiration for many youngsters in Assam to join India’s struggle for freedom.
Ashmita also practices martial arts and is an international medal holder in Karate. In the letter which Ashmita posted on October 7 addressed to the Prime Minister, she apprises Modi on the contributions of Kanaklata Baruah in India’s freedom movement.
She wrote “Kanaklata Baruah, a 17-year-old girl braved the British bullets in her march to Gohpur Police Outpost to hoist the National Flag, she was unable to hoist it as British bullets rained on her but she did not let the Flag touch the ground.”
“The supreme sacrifice which Kanaklata Baruah offered for her motherland is immensely inspirational”, she added in the letter.
Ashmita has also written a book on Kanaklata Baruah which is titled “Kanaklata Baruah-The Forgotten Teenage Martyr of Assam” which is an effort to popularise Kanaklata Baruah among the young boys and girls of the country.
She said in the letter that the stories of Kanaklata Baruah when included in the school curriculums across the country would go a long way in sowing in the young minds the seeds of nation building.