Quit India movement: Comrade Dadu Ramju's depiction & ingenuity made possible to photograph historic event

<span style="color: #222222;">This year marks 80 years of the Quit India movement. Comrade Dadu Ramju's depiction and ingenuity have made it possible to photograph this historic event.<br />”<br />”A report<br />”<br />”Bharat Chodo or Quit India Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi at the Gawalia Tank Grounds in Mumbai on 8th August 1942. This people-led movement was eventually crushed violently by the British. Comrade Dadu Ramju, a communist activist and photographer captured the incidents of lathi charge on the activists by the British police and picketing of leaders on 9th August 1942. <br />”<br />”A British soldier caught him while filming and took him to his officer. The officer and the soldier took away the camera from Dadu and his colleague. But before the police officers confiscated the camera, Ramju removed one of the used rolls from the camera and kept it in his pocket. Filming was well done on that role.<br />”<br />”Comrade Dadu Ramju's brother M Ramju further prepared slides based on the photographs and films of this movie camera with the help of two photographers. At present, the DVD of these photographs is in the memorial building of Krantiveer Nagnath Anna Nayakwadi at Valwa and G. D. Bapu Lad Memorial at Kundal.</span><br />

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