Freedom fighter who participated in Quit India Movement rues growing inequality in independent India

In the afternoon of August 9, 1942, at Barisal in erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh), a 13-year-old boy was picked up by the British police. He was detained at the police station till sunset for his offence. His crime was stepping out of the home to participate in the Quit India Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi a day before on August 8.