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Muslims always rebuffed Pak's war cry of 'Islam in danger' to attack India

Saquib Salim In 1965, as India was trying to recover after the Chinese invasion, Jawaharlal Nehru's death came as another setback to the newly independent nation. Nehru’s successor Lal Bahadur Shastri was focused on making India self-reliant in food production. At that time, General Ayub Khan-led Pakistan attacked India. Pakistan claimed the attack was meant to help their "Muslim brothers in India, especially Kashmir.&q...

Indians rebuff Pak's attempt to divide them through Pahalgam attack

Saquib Salim For centuries Indian civilization has been at the battle with the forces who want to destroy India. There is not an iota of doubt in the minds of the enemies of India that the strength of this civilization lies in its ‘unity in diversity’. They know that despite diverse languages, races, religions, castes, and classes all the Indians see themselves as one single unit. To subdue this ancient civilization they have t...

Pakistan's proxy war in Kashmir started with its birth

Saquib Salim The killing of 26 tourists by terrorists in Kashmir has shocked the nation. Fingers are being pointed towards Pakistan. One of the factors for this quick conclusion is the remarks of Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir a few days ago. He spoke against Hindus and India while addressing a handful of expatriates. The Pahalgam terror attack also revived the memories of the 1990s when Pakistan-sponsored terrorism accounted for thousand...

‘Hindu-Musulam ki jai’ slogan shook the British and led to Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Saquib Salim “Mussulmans and Hindus had united. I have been expecting this, there is a very big show coming….. I must leave your mother and Alice in this house, although there is the same danger from Jullundur city.” This is what General R. E. H. Dyer told his son on 11 April 1919 before leaving for Amritsar, where he would carry out the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre a day later. The statement makes it clear that his int...

Prof. Abdul Bari: the forgotten labour leader of India

Saquib Salim “I congratulate you for your having successfully organised so mony Unions in such a short time,”Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel wrote these words in a letter to Prof. Abdul Bari. A Slice Of History Prof. Abdul Bari was one of the tallest leaders of Congress from Bihar and the most popular leader of labourers and workers in India at the time of his assassination on 28 March 1947. S. K. Sen in his book, Working ...

Usha Mehta handled radio communication on Gandhi's civil disobedience movement

Saquib Salim “Usha Mehta was convicted and sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment, in what is known as the Congress Radio Case. The programmes broadcast from the illegal Radio Station included speeches, songs, news bulletins, and directions to the public in furtherance of the civil disobedience movement. In nearly every case, these programmes were broadcast from gramophone records. Usha Mehta made several of these records, rep...

Usha Mehta handled radio communication on Gandhi's civil disobedience movement

Saquib Salim “Usha Mehta was convicted and sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment, in what is known as the Congress Radio Case. The programmes broadcast from the illegal Radio Station included speeches, songs, news bulletins, and directions to the public in furtherance of the civil disobedience movement. In nearly every case, these programmes were broadcast from gramophone records. Usha Mehta made several of these records, rep...

Usha Mehta handled radio communication on Gandhi's civil disobedience movement

Saquib Salim “Usha Mehta was convicted and sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment, in what is known as the Congress Radio Case. The programmes broadcast from the illegal Radio Station included speeches, songs, news bulletins, and directions to the public in furtherance of the civil disobedience movement. In nearly every case, these programmes were broadcast from gramophone records. Usha Mehta made several of these records, rep...

Mathematician Augustus De Morgan’s admiration for India

Saquib Salim “They forget that there exists in India, under circumstances which prove a very high antiquity, a philosophical language which is one of the wonders of the world, and which is a near collateral of the Greek, if not its parent form. From those who wrote in this language, we derive our system of arithmetic and algebra which is the most powerful instrument of modern analysis. In this language, we find a system of logic and ...

Joseph Baptista: Father of the Indian Home Rule League is nearly forgotten

Saquib Salim “See immediately professionally Savarkar arriving Bombay Steamer Morea. Inform him French Government demanded his return. Choose your Solicitor. Letter follows. Madame Cama.” This was the text of a telegram received by Joseph Baptista in Mumbai (then Bombay) from Madam Bhikaji Cama of Paris on 20 July 1910. Very few people know Joseph Batista in today’s India. The man who, along with Bal Gangadhar Tilak, ...

Who is Chittu Pandey after whom a UP College is being named

Saquib Salim “Chittu Pandey was my old and brave comrade whose death has pained me." Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said this at the U.P Political Conference on 20 April 1947. Who is Chittu Pandey after whom the Yogi Adiyatanath-led government has named a new medical college at Ballia in UP? Ballia, a district in the U.P, had practically thrown away the colonial government for a few days in August 1942 in response to Mahatma Ga...

Why is Ballia Medical College named after Chittu Pandey?

Saquib Salim “Chittu Pandey was my old and brave comrade whose death has pained me." Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said this at the U.P Political Conference on 20 April 1947. Who is Chittu Pandey after whom the Yogi Adiyatanath-led government has named a new medical college at Ballia in UP? Ballia, a district in the U.P, had practically thrown away the colonial government for a few days in August 1942 in response to Mahatma Ga...

Sher Ali: The assassin of Lord Mayo and his fateful end

Saquib Salim “He (Sher Ali) was perfectly composed on the day of his execution, and was quite satisfied to die….. Intense vanity, utter fearlessness, and, above all, pride in the murder of Lord Mayo, were the most marked features of his character, as seen at the last.” This is how the official records of the British read about the hanging of Sher Ali on 11 March 1872. Slice Of History Sher Ali, a Kuki Khel ...

Sher Ali: the assassin of Lord Mayo

Saquib Salim “He (Sher Ali) was perfectly composed on the day of his execution, and was quite satisfied to die….. Intense vanity, utter fearlessness, and, above all, pride in the murder of Lord Mayo, were the most marked features of his character, as seen at the last.” This is how the official records of the British read about the hanging of Sher Ali on 11 March 1872. Slice Of History Sher Ali, a Kuki Khel ...

Sarda Act Controversy fuelled women's movement in India

Saquib Salim “Hundreds of ladies' meetings have been held in the country; District and Provincial Ladies' conferences have taken place, Ladies Associations and Sabhas representing different communities have met and passed resolutions on this Bill. Three All-India Ladies' Conferences in different parts of the country have met, discussed, and passed resolutions But do you find a single instance of such a public meeting of w...

J. N. Tata established IISc on the advice of Vivekananda

Saquib Salim “The Indian Institute of Science owes its origin to the foresight and munificence of Mr. Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata, who sometime in 1896 conceived the idea of vesting in Trustees certain houses and landed property in the city of Bombay representing a capital of thirty lakh of rupees, so that the net income, estimated at Rs. 1,25,000, might be applied towards the endowment of a Research Institute for India. The proposal...

J. N. Tata established IISc on the advice of Vivekananda

Saquib Salim “The Indian Institute of Science owes its origin to the foresight and munificence of Mr. Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata, who sometime in 1896 conceived the idea of vesting in Trustees certain houses and landed property in the city of Bombay representing a capital of thirty lakh of rupees, so that the net income, estimated at Rs. 1,25,000, might be applied towards the endowment of a Research Institute for India. The proposal...

C V Raman booked his flight to receive Nobel much before it was announced

Saquib Salim National Science Day is celebrated every year on 28 February. On this day in 1928, Sir C. V. Raman discovered the Raman Effect, or Raman Scattering of Light, a phenomenon that changed man's understanding of physics. Ramans was conferred a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930, the first to an Asian. Raman had placed India on the map of global science. National Science Day C. V. Raman’s student and associate Prof. K...

Anandi Gopal Joshi: The first Indian woman doctor of India

Saquib Salim “Although Anandabai (Anandi Gopal Joshi) was so young, her perseverance, undaunted courage, and devotion to her husband were unparalleled. It will be long before we again see a woman like her. The education which she had received had greatly heightened her nature and ennobled her mind. Although she suffered more than words can express, from her mortal disease, which was consumption, not a word of complaint or impatience ...

Scientist Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar's wife was behind his famous Urdu poetry collection

Saquib Salim Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, the first Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the first Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), is one of the most famous scientists India has produced in the last century. While Bhatnagar’s scientific research and his role in formulating policies in post-independent India are well known, his love for Urdu literature and language re...

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