Renowned Gandhian and freedom fighter G.G. Parikh, who was imprisoned during the Quit India Movement and during Emergency, and who spent his entire life in empowering the labour movement and spreading socialist democratic values at the grassroot by involving youth, is no more. The founder of Yusuf Meherally Centre, he passed away in the early hours on Thursday (October 2, 2025) due to old age. He was 101 years old.
Friends and associates remembered him as a freedom fighter, an upholder of secularism, a builder of labour movements and consumer co-operatives, and a man who
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