One of the youths, Priti Sinha, added, “We have prayed to Pahari Baba to give so much strength to our soldiers that Pakistan gets annihilated, so that no other country may ever dare any kind of misadventure with us.”Pahari Mandir is an ancient Shiva temple on a barren hill, which attracts hundreds of devotees from Ranchi and nearby areas. Notably, during the colonial era, British authorities used to hang freedom fighters on this hill, and therefore, it was named ‘Fansi Tongri’ (hangman’s hill).To keep their memory alive, the temple has been unfurling the Tricolour Independence and Republic Day since 1947. Perhaps it is the only place of worship in the country with such a custom.A plaque on the temple wall also indicates the spot where the Tricolour was first hoisted on the midnight of August 14, 1947, by freedom fighter Krishna Chandra Das to honour his martyred friends.
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