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Indian educator, political activist, and publisher Aruna Asaf Ali, born on 16 July 1909, passed away on July 29, 1996. She was an ardent member of the fight for Indian independence, and she is well known for raising the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay in 1942, during the Quit India Movement. She continued involved in politics after independence and was elected as Delhi's first Mayor.