(Following is an excerpt from the autobiography of Shaukat Kaifi, wife of Kaifi Azmi. The autobiography, Yaad Ki Rahguzar, is originally written in Urdu. English…
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Europe
रूस ने हमला किया ईरान पर…..
नादिर ने शाह बनने के बाद ईरान से अफ़गानों के प्रभुत्व को कम किया पर उसके बाद क़ज़ार वंश का शासन आया जिसके काल…
Poet
When Sajjad Zaheer wrote about Faiz Ahmad Faiz from the jail in Pakistan
(Following is a letter written by Sajjad Zaheer to his family in Lucknow, as published by the Tribune (Sydney, NSW), 28 November, 1951. In…
Heritage
ऑस्ट्रेलिया के विकास में भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप के ऊंटों का योगदान
ऑस्ट्रेलिया में लगी आग ने करोड़ों जंगली जानवरों को मौत के घाट उतार दिया है. जानवरों को बचाने और आग पर क़ाबू पाने के…
Education
When Asking Donations for Aligarh Muslim University were seditious (Anti-National) : Banned Poem ‘Muslim University ka Chanda’
There is a misconception or a wrongly held notion that Aligarh Muslim University was created by the British or at least had a full…
Freedom Movement
Listen to a poem banned by the British for exposing Police atrocities
In 1921, the British Government banned and confiscated a poem written by an unknown freedom fighter whose pen name was ‘Noor’. In the aftermath…
Freedom Movement
Rowlatt Act, 1919 : When Police killed 60 protestors but couldn’t stop the protest
During the First World War the British India Government had enacted a Defence of India Act, 1915 in order to suppress any nationalist activity…
Freedom Fighter
Rowlatt Act, 1919 : Mahatma Gandhi asked the Indians to die while opposing the repressive law
(Following is the text of the statement submitted by Mahatma Gandhi while explaining his call of satyagraha against Rowlatt Act) The term satyagraha was…
Freedom Fighter
Rowlatt Bill, 1919 : When V.S Sastri dared to challenge the British against the repressive law
(Following is the speech delivered by V.S Srinivasa Sastri on 7 February, 1919 before the Imperial Legislative Council as the Rowlatt Bill was…