Allama Iqbal

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Iqbal and hijab in Madhya Pradesh: When a bulldozer comes to school, we are all diminished

June 19, 2023 10:34 pm

Assaults of the kind on the Ganga Jamuna High School can be resisted only if teachers, educationists and students come together, communicate with the larger society, and initiate a movement for saving education

Delhi University curriculum 'rationalisation': Why students' need to study Pakistan's national poet, Mohammad Iqbal

June 17, 2023 10:12 am

Rakhshanda Jalil writes: His articulation of Indian Muslims' disquiet must be seen in the context of his time – and ours

Controversy over an Iqbal song in a UP school and how these culture wars impoverish us all

December 24, 2022 7:04 am

The government machinery seems to take a cue from the power corridors and acts with alacrity in favour of the majoritarian sentiment when such controversies erupt. In the process, in Karnataka as in UP, the cultural life of the common people is getting restricted and impoverished.

Amid VHP row over song in school, recalling Muhammad Iqbal, also the poet of Saare Jahan Se Achcha

December 25, 2022 2:50 pm

Iqbal's 'Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua' had triggered controversy in 2019 as well. The poet is revered in Pakistan as the ideological founder of the nation

Iqbal wanted nothing short of an Islamic Renaissance

October 27, 2019 9:58 am

While in his early poetry Iqbal spoke of a united and free India where Hindus and Muslims could co-exist, this syncretism gave way to a somewhat woolly Unitarianism and Individualism.

Explained: Allama Iqbal and his role in the creation of Pakistan

October 25, 2019 7:35 pm

Allama Iqbal was a poet-philosopher whose work promoted the philosophy of self-hood and dealt with the intellectual and cultural reconstruction of the Islamic world.

UP: VHP complains about school poem by Iqbal, Pilibhit headmaster suspended

October 16, 2019 10:59 am

According to an inquiry by Bisalpur’s Block Education Officer (BEO) Upendra Kumar on Tuesday, the suspended headmaster, Furqan Ali, 45, made students recite the poem “lab pe aati hai dua”, written in 1902 by Muhammad Iqbal.

‘He was with us for Diwali... Would a staunch Muslim feel at home?’

March 31, 2014 2:30 am

Families, friends, teachers of Jaipur youths say IM ‘link’ unbelievable

TWICE BITTEN

November 13, 2013 2:43 am

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has taken to reciting Urdu couplets in his public speeches.

‘I feel voters are in a mood to write a new story this time’

January 27, 2012 3:49 am

On October 13,2010,the day he quit as Punjab Finance Minister and resigned from the Shiromani Akali Dal,Manpreet Badal bought himself a white Toyota Fortuner.

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