29th September, 1942. The whole nation was in the throes of the #QuitIndia movement. In Tamluk town of Bengal's Midnapore district, a 6000-strong procession was headed towards the Tamluk police station (1/4) 
It was led by a 72-year old Bengali widow. As they entered the town, they were ordered to disband in light of sec. 144 that had been promulgated. The old lady stepped forward, asking her followers to wait. She was shot at immediately (2/4)
With the tricolor in her arms and shout of "Vande Mataram" emanating from her lips, Matangini Hazra kept moving forward even as two more bullets found their mark (3/4)
Eye witnesses said the intensity of her shouts became stronger with every bullet even as life bled out slowly from her body. This incredible woman, born to a poor peasant couple, married at 12 and widowed at 18, was born #OTD (4/4)
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