Achint Ram was born in August 1898 in Kot Mohammad Khan village in Khadur Sahib tehsil of Tarn Taran district of Punjab, 50 km from Amritsar.

[3] Even after independence, the family stayed back at Lajpat Bhawan in Lahore, where she cooked meals for hundreds of displaced refugees, before shifting themselves to Delhi in 1948.

[4] Daughter Subhadra Khosla, at age 13, was the youngest freedom fighter to be jailed during independence movement.

[5] Krishna Kant remained Vice President of India from August 1997 till his death on 27 July 2002.

[6][7] Lala Achint Ram joined the Congress party in his youth and took active part in its movements.

He was also the president of Punjab Provincial Election Tribunal and National Industrial High School for a period of two years.

[3] In 1953, he undertook a padayatra, to Sirsa, Haryana, along with Satya Bala, daughter of Lala Jai Dev Tayal of Hisar to encourage people to donate land to landless labourers.