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1. Google has honoured Anasuya Sarabhai with a doodle on her 132nd birth anniversary. She founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association, India's oldest union of textile workers, in 1920. Known as 'Motaben', Gujarati for 'elder sister', she was born in 1885 into the affluent Sarabhai family in Ahmedabad.

2. In 1912, Anasuya left for England to continue her studies and it was there that the turnaround in her life came. During this time, she came in contact with George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb, who recommended a gradual transition to a socialist society. Next year she returned to India and started working with the marginal and disempowered communities.

3. She began by opening a school for poor students of all castes, creches and toilets for women. "One morning, I was sitting outside in the compound combing out the children's hair when I saw a group of 15 workers passing by as if in a trance. I called out to them,... What's the matter? Why do you look so listless?" They said, "Behen, we have just finished our work. We have worked for two nights and a day without a break, and now we are on our way home." These words filled me with horror. This was no different than slavery."

4. When epidemic hit Ahmedabad in 1914, the condition of the mill workers deteriorated further and they approached Anasuya to take up their cause. She gave an ultimatum to the mill owners and even went against her brother, Ambalal, who was the then-president of the Mill Owners' Association, demanding better wages and working ambience for the labourers.

5. She was supported in her work by Mahatma Gandhi and in 1918, Anasuya managed mill owners to accede to the demand of Ahmedabad weavers for 35% wage hike. Thus, laying the foundation for Gujarat's oldest labour union, Majoor Mahajan Sangh, on February 25, 1920. However, Anasuya ensued that the relationship between the mill owners and the union always remained harmonious and any differences were nipped in the bud.

In 1914, Anasuya Sarabhai was pitted against her brother Ambalal Sarabhai because she was a _______ and he was the _______.

1
Union leader; Secretary of Mill Owners' Association
2
Social worker; President of Mill Owners' Association 
3
Union leader; President of Mill Owners' Association
4
Social worker; Secretary of Mill Owners' Association

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