5th June 2016
The death of Poornima Pakvasa on April 25, 2016 at the age of 102 was a quiet event, away from the glare of the media.
A woman of immense charm, she was stoic, resolute, decisive and lived life more intensely than most, at Dangs, her home for several decades.Born in 1913 in Ranpur near Limbdi in Saurashtra to a family of freedom fighters, Poornima met Gandhi when she was barely eight. It was an epiphanic moment that defined the rest of her life...