Azad

Letters, texts and speeches by Abul Kalam Azad: Anti-imperial thinker, Urdu writer, Islamic scholar, and India's first Minister of Education

[Azad @readingazad]

How Muslims are creating a new vocabulary of secularism for Indian democracy https://t.co/EPwP5KdsTZ via @scroll_in

[Mohammad Ali Talpur @mmatalpur]

#AlHilal and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
My late father Mir Ali Ahmed Talpur always said 'Pir o Murshid' when mentioning him.
In his Library are Original copies of Al-Hilal of 1912, 13, 14 and 27.
Some images of 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1927.
Reprints are found but these are Original.

[Aazeen @TawakkkalAllah]

Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani of Jami'at-ul-Ulema along with several other prominent Muslims strove against the idea of Pakistan till the very end. It was under the Congress President ship of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad that India gained freedom in 1947.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, in Calcutta in 1922 " I refuse to acknowledge the present government as the rightful one and deem it my national, religious and human duty to liberate my country and my people from its servitude "

[BB @BangaloreBagh]

Medha Patkar Wil be Joining @BengaluruBagh on DAY 15 8:00am, to share songs, and words of solidarity. She will be observing a one day fast in memory of Moulana Abul Kalam Azad - do consider joining.

[Heritage Times @HeritageTimesIN]

Following is the speech delivered by the then Education Minister of the Government of India #MaulanaAbulKalamAzad while inaugurating the first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur on 18 August, 1951.

#AbulKalamAzad #MaulanaAzad
https://t.co/wDf1e4A2uh

[The Centrum Media @thecentrummedia]

#AbulKalamAzad is admired as an eminent #Muslim theologist despite his criticism on the #partition of British #India.

[Azad @readingazad]

"There were not many belongings in his household. A dozen Khadi kurta-pyjamas, few cotton and woolen sherwanis, a worn out hair brush, and thousands of books were his only worldly possessions. His greatest legacy to India was a mind of unsurpassed intelligence and deep humanism."

[MAHA INFO CENTRE @micnewdelhi]

"A person of the calibre of Plato, Aristotle & Pythagoras" Maulana #AbulKalamAzad, was a revered freedom fighter, politician &educationist.He was a strong advocate of harmony,unity & education as a means to empower citizens

Tributes on his Smrutidin.

Video Courtesy: Doordarshan

[HISTORY TV18 @HISTORYTV18]

#DidYouKnow Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin adopted Azad (‘free’) as his pen name. He was independent India's 1st education minister. Under his leadership, the 1st Indian Institute of Technology was established. He passed away on #ThisDayInHistory. #AbulKalamAzad

[Shaunna Rodrigues ಶೊನಾ ರೊಡ್ರಿಗಸ್ @simhashaunna]

This is what Sardar Patel had to say about Abul Kalam Azad at the end of Azad's second term as the president of the Indian National Congress (1940-46) "The credit for bringing us to the present position in our struggle for independence goes entirely to Maulana Azad,.. (1/2)

[Shaunna Rodrigues ಶೊನಾ ರೊಡ್ರಿಗಸ್ @simhashaunna]

Abul Kalam Azad died on this day in 1958. Sarojini Naidu is known to have said "he was fifty the day he was born" when he was alive. He was described in his time as a 'misfit in this age'.He wrote that he was "Wandering between two worlds, one dead
The other powerless to be born"

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

"You have to dream before your dreams can come true."

Rare quotes and pictures of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad here: https://t.co/AwBEdd537X

[Azad @readingazad]

11. This was an experience which was almost universal except in the case of very few small and homogeneous nations.

[Azad @readingazad]

Azad's Speech Dated 9-4-1949 at the Inauguration of the National Commission of UNESCO, New Delhi

[Azad @readingazad]

10. Experience showed that there was not only colossal ignorance about different nations but in many cases members of the same nation were ignorant of one another's attitudes, beliefs, customs and faith.