Aruna Asaf Ali was a firebrand revolutionary freedom fighter. The book gives a graphic account of her rich parentage, her controversial marriage with a Muslim Asaf Ali and her daring political actions. She faced cruel incarceration in jail during freedom struggle. But the one singular act which brought her to limelight was during Quit India Movement in 1942 when she hoisted the tricolour in Azad Maidan in the midst of sloganeering from thousands of people who had gathered to listen to Gandhiji’s speech on Quit India Movement. But Gandhiji and all other political leaders had been arrested the previous night. This onerous task was brazenly taken up by Aruna Asaf Ali who exhibited phenomenal courage and disappeared in the crowd after the flag hoisting ceremony. The police could never arrest her during her three and a half years underground period. Later Aruna Asaf Ali emerged as a great scholar and was responsible in starting the weekly paper ‘Link’ and the daily newspaper ‘Patriot’.

Prof. K. L. Johar,the author of the book ‘Aruna Asaf Ali: A Revolutionary Freedom Fighter’, is now 89 years old and lives in Noida. He has authored more than 36 books earlier which include books like ‘Marytr Bhagat Singh’, ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’, ‘Ajit Singh-An Exiled Revolutionary’, ‘Private Initiatives in Higher Education’, ‘Eminent Women Freedom Fighters of India’ and ‘Great Educationists of India’. All these books have been highly acclaimed in the market. Prof. K.L. Johar is MA PhD in English literature and has retired as vice chancellor of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar after serving as pro-vice chancellor of Kurukshetra University for a period of two and a half years.