At her own graduation ceremony, a 20 year old girl walked up to the British Governor of Bengal and fired five shots at him. Her name was Bina Das. She was born in 1911 in Krishnanagar, Bengal, the youngest of five sisters. On 6 February 1932, Calcutta University held its convocation. The chief guest was the Governor of Bengal, Stanley Jackson. Bina was one of the students receiving a degree that day. When the Governor began his speech, she stood up and fired. Five shots. Not one hit him. She was caught on the spot. In her confession, she wrote that she wanted to die fighting this system. She got nine years of rigorous imprisonment. She was 20. When she came out, she joined the Quit India movement in 1942 and went back to jail till 1945. After independence, she was elected to the Bengal assembly. In 1960, India gave her the Padma Shri. After her husband died, she moved to Rishikesh and lived alone, in poverty. On 26 December 1986, she died there. Most accounts say passersby found her body by the roadside, and it took the police about a month to find out who she was. In 2012, Calcutta University gave her the degree the British had held back. She had been dead for 26 years.