Suniti Choudhury was born on May 22, 1917, to a middle-class Bengali family of Tipperary. It was the year 1930, the Civil Disobedience Movement was in full motion, she was witnessing all the brutality that was done to the people of India.

Around that time, her senior at Faizunnisa Girls’ High school mentored and supplied her with books mainly the books which were banned by the British. she becomes a major of the District Volunteer Corps she was leading the parade of girls when Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was in town to address the students organization.
‘Chhatri Sangha’, a female wing of the organization affiliated to ‘Yugantar’ was training young girls, the smartest and bravest one of them passed on information, arm, ammunition, and money for the revolutionaries. Prafulla, Santisudha Ghose, and Suniti Choudary demanded more stand out equal to the boys after that under the supervision of Akhil Chandra Nandi, president of the Tripura Students’Organisation their practical training began. They used to bunk school went to Maynamati Hills and practice firing. the target so to shoot targets but to manage the back kick of the revolver. For Sunit it was difficult to do as her index finger did not reach the trigger properly but she didn’t give up she made her long middle to fire her lethal shots from a revolver of Belgian make.
The district Magistrate Charles Geoffrey Stevens, the man behind destroying the Satyagraha, harassing every Indian for
raising their voice for freedom.
It was she did a bravery act, it was on 14 December 1931 around 10 am morning, two teenagers came down from a carriage which stopped in front of Magistrate’s Bungalow, both had a silk wrapper around their sarees, the girls sent interview slip through the orderly after which the Magistrate along with the Sub-divisional Officer came out, he glances through the letter passed to him which was about appealing for a swimming pool with the signature of that two girls as to be Illa Sen and Meera Devi, those girls were waiting for a clean window, requested to sign it, he went inside his chamber and came back with the signed paper, that was his last move before the shots rang, seeing in front of two girls without a silk wrapper pointing two revolvers at his heart.
People gathered to capture the two teenagers, but Santi and Suniti were well prepared for everything, they used to prick pins in their fingertips to increase their acceptance of pain so they don’t confess about their secret organization, They didn’t have a single expression on their face when they were molested under the pretense of body searches for weapons.

Those two girls were singing patriotic songs when they been taken for the police van to the courtroom. When the trial began, they turned their backs to the judge, all court members chairs to sit as they were denied .when SDO came as a witness and cooking up stories against them, they shouted “Great Liar ! Great Liar “ so loud in the courtroom, nobody could get away with offending them, as two girls seemed to fear no court .thier smiles faded when they were charged
to be in imprisonment for lifetime , Santi was kept in second class with other revolutionaries while Suniti for a lifetime, was sent to third class with thieves and pickpockets.
Before the Second World War caused their release, then Suniti was of 22 years old woman without any formal education and her only brother to help her.
She completes her pre-university course from Asutosh College, carried on to Campbell Medical School for the Licentiate in Medicine and surgery and got admission to Calcutta Medical College in 1944, after completing MBBS because of her kindness and dedication she becomes a reputed Doctor in Chandannagar, where people used to call her “Lady Ma”.
She married Pardyot Kumar another activist and also a friend of his brother. She was offered a contesting ticket from Congress and the Communist Parties In the first general elections but she refused it. She was not interested in political plays, he helped her brother with his business and took care of her paralyzed parents, she endured many political battles for her career thereafter.

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