Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah - Birth Centenary 10.10.1996

Born on October 10, 1896 at Jorhat, Assam, Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah was a front-ranking freedom fighter from Assam. A Gandhian to the core, he was drawn to the nationalist movement while he was a student of law in the Calcutta University in 1916. He graduated in 1920, and plunged headlong into the freedom movement, working as a volunteer at the Calcutta session of the Indian national Congress. Also, during his days as a law student he came into contact with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and a longstanding friendship developed between the two.