Q. During the freedom struggle, Aruna Asaf Ali was a major woman organizer of underground activity in: (UPSC Prelims 2009)
Answer: Quit India Movement
Notes: Aruna Asaf Ali is famously known as the "Heroine of 1942" for her key role in the Quit India Movement. After the arrest of Congress leaders in August 1942, she hoisted the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, signaling the movement's launch. She then went underground, organizing resistance networks, editing the underground magazine Inquilab, and evading arrest until 1946.