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Usha Mehta (25 March 1920 – 11 August 2000 [3]) was a Gandhian and independence activist of India. She is also remembered for organizing the Congress Radio , also called the Secret Congress Radio , an underground radio station , which functioned for few months during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Congress Radio started with a broadcast on 27 August 1942 at 7:30 p.m. from the top floor of the Sea View building in Chowpatty Bombay with Usha Mehta, the founder of the station, announcing, "This is the Congress Radio calling on (a wavelength of) 42.34 metres from somewhere in India."
Ae Watan Mere Watan (transl. Oh Country My Country) is a 2024 Hindi-language historical biographical film about India's struggle for freedom in 1942, based on the life of Usha Mehta, a brave young girl who starts an underground radio station to spread the message of unity, setting off a thrilling chase with the British authorities during the Quit India movement.
To circumvent media restrictions, Indian National Congress activists, led by Usha Mehta contacted Mumbai-based amateur radio operators, "Bob" Tanna (VU2LK) and Printer to help broadcast messages to grass-root party workers across the country. [1] This became known as the "Congress Radio", and began broadcasting from 2 September 1942 on 7.12 MHz.
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta (1900–1974) Social Work Maharashtra 1959 Radhabinod Pal (1886–1967) Public Affairs West Bengal 1960 Narayana Raghvan Pillai (1898–1992) Public Affairs Tamil Nadu 1961 No awards; 1962 H. V. R. Iyengar (1902–1978) Civil Service Tamil Nadu 1962 Padmaja Naidu (1900–1975) Public Affairs Andhra Pradesh 1962 ...
He is the nephew of Gandhian and freedom fighter, Usha Mehta. His younger brother, Dr. Yatin Mehta, is Chairman of Medanta Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, Gurgaon, Haryana. [13] His youngest brother is Dr. Nirad Mehta, Consultant Radiologist at Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai. [14] [15]
Usha Mangeshkar (born 1935), Indian singer; Usha Mehta (1920–2000), Indian Gandhian and freedom fighter; Usha Menon, Indian-British gynaecologist; Usha Sanyal, historian specializing in Asia; Usha Uthup (born 1947), Indian singer; K. K. Usha (1939–2020), Chief Justice of the high court of Kerala, India from 2000 to 2001; P. T. Usha (born ...
Like her contemporaries Aruna Asaf Ali and Usha Mehta, she came to the forefront during the Quit India Movement and was arrested by British. She later worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi during the Partition riots. She accompanied him to Noakhali in 1946. [citation needed]