Lakshmi Sahgal

As a huge crowd bid her the final farewell, veteran freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sahgal's body was on Tuesday taken to the GSVM medical college in Kanpur, where it would be donated for research.

Amitabh Bachchan mourned the demise of Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, who died today following a brief illness, calling her a "fierce freedom fighter".

Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday condoled the death of freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, saying that the nation has lost an icon of selfless service.

I came from a political family and was interested in the national movement, but I was determined to finish my studies first. I completed studying medicine at the Madras Medical College in 1940. By this time, the Second World War had broken out and there was a move to recruit all doctors into the (British Indian) Army. I did not want to do that and ...

Freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sahgal has died in a Kanpur hospital; she was 97. She has been in a coma since Wednesday when she had a heart stroke. She was a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

As a huge crowd bid her the final farewell, veteran freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sahgal's body was on Tuesday taken to the GSVM medical college in Kanpur, where it would be donated for research.

Amitabh Bachchan mourned the demise of Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, who died today following a brief illness, calling her a "fierce freedom fighter".

Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday condoled the death of freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, saying that the nation has lost an icon of selfless service.

I came from a political family and was interested in the national movement, but I was determined to finish my studies first. I completed studying medicine at the Madras Medical College in 1940. By this time, the Second World War had broken out and there was a move to recruit all doctors into the (British Indian) Army. I did not want to do that and ...

Freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sahgal has died in a Kanpur hospital; she was 97. She has been in a coma since Wednesday when she had a heart stroke. She was a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.