It was during a classroom session that a student asked me “Sir, is Joy Bangla a seditious slogan?” This was not the first time that I had to face this question. I have been riddled.
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April 19, 2021
A certain political scientist, a writer of 700-page ideologicalpolemic against Jinnah trying unsuccessfully to disprove Ayesha Jalal’s thesis in her book The Sole Spokesman, has been bent uponlabelling the creation of Pakistan as a British conspiracy and Jinnah as their collaborator. Many have resorted to this slander against Jinnah without any supporting evidences even before.
It takes us back to Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam (known in short as Ahrar), Khaksar Tehreek (established by Allama Mashriqi in 1931) and other Islamist religious movements in the 1940s who were fearful of Jinnah’s ascendancy as a modern Muslim leader of the Muslims of South Asia. In these movements, the bigoted Congress backed fundamentalist and sectarian Ahrarthat had special ire directed atJinnah because he repeatedly refused to declare Ahmadis Non-Muslims. The said political scientist’s animus towards Jinnah is also exacerbated becausethe good doctor is the son of a famous Majl
DNA Special: Why Mt Everest should be renamed after Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar
We floated the idea of renaming Mount Everest to Mount Sikdar because the British robbed him of his credit and gave it to Sir George Everest.
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Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 06:39 AM IST
Great Mathematician Radhanath Sikdar made history when he first measured the height of Mount Everest. However, when history was written, the achievements of Radhanath Sikdar were forgotten and that is why we will elaborate three points to let the world know about this great man s achievements and why Mt Everest should be renamed Mt Sikdar.
Kenneth Mason, a famous professor at the Oxford University, shared an anecdote related to Mount Everest in one of his lectures. The lecture was titled Himalayan Romances .
DNA Special: All about Radhanath Sikdar, the man who measured Mount Everest for the first time ever
Andrew Scott Waugh considered Sir George Everest as his mentor and that s why he sent a proposal to rename Peak 15 mountain peak to Mount Everest.
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Updated: Jan 13, 2021, 11:20 PM IST
Do you know why and how the world s highest mountain peak got its name Mount Everest? History has taught us that in 1856 the Royal Geographical Society named the highest mountain peak in the world as Mount Everest . It was named after Sir George Everest, who was the head of the survey and map-making organization Survey of India from 1830 to 1843. Sir George Everest died on December 2, 1866.