When he went to prison for the first time, Gour Hari Das was just 14 years old. It was almost a novelty for young Das, who along with his father and brother, was arrested for raising the unofficial Indian flag, in the village of Ikda in Odisha, on 26th January.

On that morning in January, Das had accompanied his father and other nationalists to the village maidan to hoist the Indian flag, when local cops intervened, forbidding them to do so.

Naturally, violating the cop’s warning landed all three in the police station.

Mumbai-based Das, an unsung hero of India’s freedom struggleggle knocked for 32 years on 321 doors, climbed 66,000 steps, wrote 1,043 letters, pleaded 2,300 times in the post-Independent India just to prove that he was the same Gour Hari Das, whom Mahatma Gandhi had blessed and who was jailed for being a part of the freedom movement against the British Raj.[ref]