Born in 1898 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, Khwaja Abdul Hamied blatantly defied the British colonial rule and his father’s involvement in the British Government’s judicial services. Hamied had received several warnings for conducting political activities from the Miur Central College, Allahabad University, where he was an M.Sc student. Yet he led the Non-Cooperation Movement there …

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She donned the hijab when she was twelve years old, in a school run by Hindus.  “I’ll never forget the moment I walked through the corridors of my school, in my first week of wearing the hijab, and this teacher called me. I had never spoken to her before but I knew she had a …

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