Justice Markandey Katju writes: November 11, 2023 will be the 135th birth anniversary of one of my heroes, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad or just Maulana Azad. Many of my heroes are people who refused to succumb to the popular mood of the day, and were therefore lonely figures, jeered, reviled and abused by the vast majority.
Political and social media fulminations continue in India over former US President Barack Obama’s fairly anodyne observations about the treatment of the country’s minorities, particularly Muslims.
Justice Markandey Katju says: I had not heard of Husnara Salim until recently when someone informed me about her, and sent me her number. I then had long conversations with her on WhatsApp, and found she is a remarkable woman. Husnara is the grandniece of Maulana Azad (who was her father’s maternal aunt’s husband), one of my heroes, who, while being a practising Muslim, staunchly opposed Partition of India, even at the risk of his life.
