Datuk Rasamah Bhupalan (Rasamah Naomi Navarednam a.k.a. Mrs F.R. Bhupalan) needs no introduction. She has been seen in the media every now and then over the years. Listening to her interview, she must have had a very interesting and fruitful 84 years of lively life. Imagine a 16year old Indian girl in pavadai in 1943 donning military camouflage with a rifle over the shoulder and being shipped to Burma border as a soldier in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army under the auspices of Netaji Subash Chandrabose to fight the British.Happy Malaysia Day!
"When the Malayan flag was hoisted in 1957, 'every person there did not represent one race, they were Malayans,” recalls Mrs FR Bhupalan, who was then a 30-year-old mother of two."
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