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Guardian | Aruna Asaf Ali |
 | | Remarkably, until the 1942 Quit India Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Indian nation, Aruna Asaf Ali was entirely apolitical, though she was married to a prominent Congress leader of undivided India, who subsequently served as Nehru's ambassador to the United States and as governor of Orissa state. |
 | | Aruna Asaf Ali was among the tens of thousands of young Indians who immediately responded to the Mahatma's call. |
 | | It went through various vicissitudes, the first of which was the exit from it of Aruna and her associates, of whom the closest was a remarkable and able journalist, Edatata Narayanan. |
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