Author: Team HT

“But, in my opinion, they (Jews) have erred grievously in seeking to impose themselves on Palestine with the aid of America and Britain and now with the aid of naked terrorism.”

Of all fear complexes, the history fear complex (of which I accuse every Hindi fanatic) is the most harmful to education. In teaching our children khari-boli Hindi, in – adopting khari-boli Hindi as Rashtra Bhasha we have been guilty of the crime of not teaching millions and millions of our boys and girls the beauty and power of khari-boli as used by Mir, Ghalib, Nazir Akbarabadi, Anis and by an impressively large number of the masters of khari-boli prose and poetry, namely, by the Urdu writers of khari-boli. Your khari- boli Hindi writers in the use of khari-boli itself are not a patch on the Urdu writers.

Following is the text of a talk by M. D. Taseer broadcasted on Radio from Lahore, a few hours after the death of Mohammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal) was reported in April 1938. Taseer was husband of Chritobel George, later Bilquis Taseer, whose other sister Alys married Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Taseer’s nikah-nama was drafted by Allama Iqbal. Taseer was a prominent Progressive writer of Urdu like Faiz. His son Salman Taseer was a Governor in Pakistan and assassinated in 2011. Salman fathered a son, Aatish Taseer, with Indian columnist Tavleen Singh.

“’Listeners who had tuned in to mourn the ‘death ’ of the great poet were pleasantly surprised and immensely relieved to hear the announcer declare in solemn tone that Hazrat Jigar Muradabadi was alive and that he was present at the Studios to read out to his admirers the very verses which would have been recited by another in his memory.”

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.