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Sudhir Vidyarthi’s Bidai De Ma! is not about martyrs, but the women who made them. Through their letters, memories, and silence, he rebuilds the emotional architecture of India’s revolution

XSudhir Vidyarthi’s poignant offering of the stories in Bidai De Ma! (Bid me Farewell, Mother) is a recollection of the mothers and sisters of 13 revolutionaries who smiled their way to the gallows or to the dreadful panopticon in the Andaman Islands in the 1920s. While the history of the non-cooperation movement led by the Mahatma has been documented – in the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG), Towards Freedom (Publications Division, GoI), and Transfer of Power (His Majesty’s Stationery Office) – the equally important struggle of the revolutionaries who believed in a violent confrontation

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