Overlooked No More: Usha Mehta, Freedom Fighter Against British Rule in India At 22, she helped establish the underground station Congress Radio, which amplified Mahatma Gandhi’s message of rebellion. Usha Mehta with a cutout of Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai in 1997. She gave daily radio news bulletins during Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, until she was arrested.Credit...Reuters May 13, 2021, 4:32 p.m. ET Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. When Mahatma Gandhi gave his famous “Do or Die” speech on Aug. 8, 1942, galvanizing Indians to demand the end of British rule, Usha Mehta heeded the call.