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Mixed feelings among freedom fighters

Updated on Aug 14, 2007 09:46 pm IST

As India observes its 60th Independence Day, its 'freedom fighters,' are spending last years doing jobs conspicuously different to the revolutionary roles they once played. Ninety-year old Nand Kishore Prasad from Chatra in Jharkhand, who first took on the British as part of Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement in 1942, has been earning a living through his typewriter that he bought at an auction at the British Secretariat in Patna city in 1947.

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