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Heritage Times is an initiative by Md. Umar Ashraf to dispel the false and semi-true stories being fed to the people in the name of History. Since 2017, it has helped in bringing out the people’s history, less known events, forgotten personalities and novel perspectives to understand the past. With the help of the Website, Twitter handle, Facebook page, YouTube and Podcast, it has been successful in introducing, into the public discourse, less known (rather forgotten) freedom fighters, especially the Muslim Freedom fighters of India, politicians, educationists, literary figures and social activists. The Heritage Times and its impact has been discussed by several reputed media houses like – The Times of India, The Hindu, Outlook, Press Trust of India, The Print, Network18 and several others.

In the areas where war is waged or which the Japanese occupy or where they infiltrate, the foreigner’s civil rule will weaken or come to an end. In these areas we must establish a Swaraj Government. In the name of this Government we must appeal to retreating units of the Indian Army to stay behind and become the people’s army.

Jayaprakash Narayan in words of Yusuf Meherally

He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.

EVM planned by the Election Commission of India in 1989

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.

When Akbar Allahabadi criticised Allama Iqbal for Sare Jahan Se Achcha

Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.

No, Maulana Azad didn’t oppose reservation for Pasmanda

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.

Usha Mehta, India’s bravest Radio Jockey, fondly known as Radio Ben

“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

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵 𝗔𝘁𝗮 𝗨𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵 𝗕𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝘂𝗱𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶

During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:

The Telegraph and the Mutiny

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.

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The Telegraph and the Mutiny

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