Sir,

S.N. Venkatnag Sober’s feature on “Mysuru’s tryst with Freedom Movement: Recalling Mysuru’s role in India’s Freedom Struggle” (Star of Mysore dated Aug. 13) was interesting. I was happy to find the name of my uncle — my father’s elder brother — G.R. Swamy in the write-up.

G.R. Swamy aka G. Ramaswamy was a veteran freedom fighter, who jumped into the freedom movement when he was a school student. While participating in the freedom struggle, he had launched a ‘Thuntara Thanda,’ a team of young boys, and planned strategies for their active participation in the struggle at Subbarayanakere.

During the freedom movement, he was imprisoned five times, and once he was kept in the Coimbatore Jail in the present Tamil Nadu, then Madras State. He had also participated in Badanaval Satyagraha, flag hoisting in Vidhuraswatha, Hamilton Building Satyagraha etc. His wife, that is my aunt, Lalithamma, was also in the movement and when she  was arrested she went to jail carrying in her arms a few months’ old baby, their eldest son, G.R. Simha, who lives now in Bengaluru.

My two other uncles, G. Shamanna and G. Subrahmanya, and aunt Subbanarasamma, had also taken part in the freedom struggle and G.Shamanna was a Tamrapatra awardee.

– Gouri Satya, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, 14.8.2017

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