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Dilip Sardesai
Former Indian cricketer.
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The Quit India resolution and Gandhi’s “Do or Die” call were delivered in Bombay.
Quit India Movement: The Night the British Jailed the Congress Leadership
In August 1942, with the world at war, Mahatma Gandhi gave a fiery call to "Do or Die." Discover the untold stories of the Quit India Movement 1942,…
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Indian author, lecturer, and orator.
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