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Dr. Ishwari Charan Shukla, a great patriot, fighter for freedom against British colonisers and a prominent ENT Surgeon of Central India was born on 8th November 1919, in Raipur, the CP & Berar province of British India (presently in Chhatisgarh state).

His father Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, Premier of CP & Berar was a leading lawyer, educationist, forceful orator, foremost leader of Central India and a contemporary of Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi.

Dr. Shukla had his early education in Raipur. He chose to study medical sciences by joining Medical School Nagpur in the year 1940.

In mid August 1942 he received a letter at Medical School Hostel written to him by his father Pandit Ravishankar Shukla.

Pandit Shukla was returning back to Raipur after attending the All India Congress Session on 8th August 1942 at Bombay where Mahatma Gandhi had given clarion call to countryman, " Do or Die -- करो या मरो ". Named as 'Quit India Movement '.

On 11th August 1942 before Pandit Shukla was arrested at Malkapore Station he wrote from train letters to his sons, telling them," this is our last fight against British Government and you all must choose whatever best you can do for your country".

The young man in his Medical School on receiving letter from his father contemplated as to what best he could do to overthrow the British rulers. With a strong will to oppose the government - he decided to abandon the tactics of passive resistance and obstruction for tactics of his own choosing? He  decided to use dynamite and jeopardise telephone lines, letter-boxes and even Raipur jail wall.

He formed a secret group of his confidents who were volunteers willing to work on the great national task of throwing British out.

There was a difference in the political style used by him - to draw the people into National Movement ready to jolt the British government using bombs . It was notable that while the leaders of the Indian National Congress prescribed tactics of passive resistance this son of Congress Premier of CP & Berar, decided instead to waging war against King of England - blasting away the wall of Raipur Jail. This is precisely what was reported in a secret document dated 10th June 1943 sent by Henry Twynam the then Governor of the Central Privinces & Berar to the then Viceroy Linlithgow, mentioning it as an act of sabotage by Ishwari Charan Shukla.

When arrested on charges of Waging War against King of England, he faced the brutality of British jail authorities, was condemned to death cell and forced to live in jail's  leper barrack with lepers.

Court proceedings were recorded by the than national newspapers and the court  hearings lasted over two and half years. It was nearing 1945. The world war two was coming to an end and so also came a new world order. British under a global pressure were already planning to quit India sooner then later. A general amenesty on political prisoners in jails, saw the severest court trials gradually getting dropped.

His passion for knowledge, in particular for sciences, and more for his own field of Medical sciences, had not diminished. Despite past two and half year's gruesome and horrible jail internment and confronting  interrogation at pro-British courts, he revived himself to resume his journey on a professional carrier of an ENT Surgeon. Immediately thereafter in 1945 Ishwari Charan Shukla wanted to resume his Medical studies by joining Calcutta Medical College but India was still not independent. According to rule of the law prevailing then, a political prisoner couldn't be given admission in British administered Medical College. This meant loosing another two precious years of youthful jest to begin college studies.

He joined Calcutta Medical College but  soon after a year had to move to King George Medical College, Lucknow because the sea climate of Calcutta made him to fall sick.

Graduating and after doing his internship at the King George Medical College, Lucknow and later an apprenticeship at Nagpur Medical College he moved to