{"id":6280,"date":"2022-08-15T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/15\/india-independence-day-the-surprising-diy-tech-that-powered-indias-freedom\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:27:20","slug":"india-independence-day-the-surprising-diy-tech-that-powered-indias-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=6280","title":{"rendered":"India Independence Day: The surprising DIY tech that powered India&#8217;s freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">This Congress Radio station case, as it was called, remains an &#8220;important chapter in the history of India&#8217;s freedom struggle,&#8221; according to Usha Thakkar, who has written a book on it. Nanik Motwane was picked up for allegedly helping the station with equipment and technical assistance. Interestingly,  Chicago Radio was not on the police&#8217;s radar &#8220;despite its proximity to the freedom movement&#8221;. British officials would often go to Nanik Motwane to buy police wireless equipment and their books appeared to be in order. Motwane told the police that he was not a member of the Congress. No evidence was found, and he was freed. &#8220;He was in jail for a month and tortured,&#8221; says Kiran Motwane. &#8220;It&#8217;s true that he was helping the underground police station&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-62390087?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This Congress Radio station case, as it was called, remains an &#8220;important chapter in the history of India&#8217;s freedom struggle,&#8221; according to Usha Thakkar, who has written a book &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}