Kamaladevi's Role In The Freedom Movement: Dr. Radhaakrishni

Dr Radhakrishnan said of Kamaladevi “She has the intelligence to think and the eloquence to transmit great ideas”. She also had the courage to challenge those who were in power as she did when she was a young woman working in the freedom movement. Few took on Sardar Patel as she did and survived in the political arena. She even challenged Gandhi whom she revered. Kamaladevi took Gandhiji’s teaching of pursuit of Truth to heart even if it meant challenging him. Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel accepted her independence and respected her for it while some other people did not.
Indira Gandhi was jealous of her father’s friendship with Kamaladevi and her antipathy towards Kamaladevi for writing to Nehru to ask his daughter not to interfere in Kamaladevi’s
There was no one to protect her and an overtly open harassment by bureaucracy made her feel extremely vulnerable. This was the period when she was most depressed and felt that she had reached the lowest ebb of her life. A woman who had been give the highest honours in India and abroad, whose name was a legend in many parts of the world was bound to feel depressed at such an un-gratifying experience. People from all walks of life throughout India admired her and saw in her life, an example to
The handicrafts Board became a bureaucratic organization. The central cottage industries emporium that was well renowned all over the world became a warehouse of poor quality crafts. She mentions in her memoirs that, “Both Faridabad and the cottage industries emporium were deflowered when they were blossoming through a kind of vandalism under the title of ‘Development’. Faridabad was made into a big industrial area, completely destroying its independent character, and made a subordinate unit. Delhi’s rapid urbanization did the same to then farms close to the city, for the city’s rich moved on to them and made them their weekend holiday