![]() “Even now if I am sitting alone at home, I stand up for the national anthem,” she says. ![]() “I had never felt so much love for my country and so acutely,” she recalls. She still remembers the things they packed: woollen socks, blankets, extra large sweaters, glucose, toiletries, vitamin pills. She was the leader of a group in her school, Convent of Jesus and Mary in Byculla, Bombay, put in charge of making care packages for Indian soldiers on the border. FOR USHA UTHUP, BORN ON November 8, 1947, the earliest memory of freedom was in 1962, during the Chinese aggression.
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