Along with other women prisoners she hoisted the Indian tricolour in Lahore Jail where she was imprisoned by the British.

[1] Post India's independence, she took an active part in Vinoba Bhave's bhoodan movement along with her husband Lala Achint Ram (who died in 1961) who was popularly called "Gandhi of Punjab".

The revolutionary leader Chandrashekhar Azad stayed at her home for three days[3] before his escape to Lahore.

Her son Krishna Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in 1989 and continued there until 1997, when he was elevated to the post of Vice President.

A year before death on 9 August 2009, she was honoured by the then President Pratibha Patil as a part of the 67th anniversary commemoration celebrations of the Quit India Movement.