Caste Discrimination in Mosques & My Grandfather, Mohammad Hashim
Caste system among Muslims in India is often debated among academic circles and […]
Caste system among Muslims in India is often debated among academic circles and […]
Hakim Ajmal Khan supplemented the Tibbia School by opening a Female Midwifery School and Hospital by getting it formally inaugurated by the wife of the Governor of Punjab, Lady Dane on 13 January 1909. It was a radical step taken by Hakim Saheb towards the professional courses in the direction of female education.
A dream that comes true; like the rare sight of a shooting star. […]
The undeniable fact that Fatima Ali Jinnah graduated in the year 1923 makes her the first female and a Muslim dentist of Undivided India followed by Tabitha Solomon who graduated five years after her.
It is a reproduction of a portion from A Critical Review of the Basic Facts in the History of Cinchona by Dr. Jaime Jaramillo-Arango, former Rector of the National Faculty of Medicine of Bogota.
भारत में 19वीं सदी के दौरान दंत चिकित्सा में क्षेत्र में कोई काम […]
They have created an army of preachers, who have become a common sight in the subcontinent with their white topi and kurta-pajama, and their beds rolled on their backs.
They have reached to remote corners of the Muslim society, often residing in slums and providing religious education to inspiration to the most downtrodden.
(Following is a reproduction of a report published in ‘The British Medical Journal’ […]
The women’s day was brought to light in the early 1900s where this […]
(Following is the text of an address delivered by eminent historian Tara Chand […]
Imagine a mother of 12 children who feels agitated at the very sight […]
You may be a dentist, a physician, a physiotherapist, a laboratory technician, a […]
Arab geographers and scholars have played a significant role in the evolution and […]
The beginning of this decade, 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of the very […]
It was the year 1961, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in the northern Indian […]
As Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) completes its hundred years of University status I share this poem with you.
How prophetic was the poet when he wrote:
It is the message given by the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi paying homage to Dr. Zakir Husain
Following is the speech delivered by the then Education Minister of the Government of India Maulana Abul Kalam Azad while inaugurating the first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur on 18 August, 1951
Sir Syed Khan’s reply to an offensive book on Prophet Muhammad by Sir William Muir
This is the text of the speech Sir Syed Ahmad Khan gave at the public dinner in honour of the foundation of the Mohamedan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, at the Aligarh Institute Hall on 8th January, 1877
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
Read our special feature about India’s bravest Radio Jockey ,fondly known as Radio Ben
CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.
Allama Iqbal Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, declining the offer of Vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh, 29th November 1920.