by Admin | Aug 13, 2025 | Education
Mehr Afshan Farooqi is a distinguished academic, translator, and literary critic specialising in Urdu and South Asian literature. Born and raised in Allahabad, India, she hails from a prominent literary family; her father was the legendary Urdu poet and critic Shamsur...
by Admin | Aug 1, 2025 | Freedom Movement
Mehr Taj (1918-2012), the only daughter of the renowned nonviolent Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as Bacha Khan, lived a life that was a profound embodiment of her father’s progressive vision for social reform. Her story is particularly...
by Admin | Aug 13, 2025 | English Literature
Mehru Jaffer is a prominent Indian author, journalist, and academic celebrated for her insightful works on Sufism, Islamic history, and the cultural heritage of South Asia, particularly her native city of Lucknow. Her career is marked by a unique blend of scholarly...
by Admin | Jul 17, 2025 | Politics
Mofida Ahmed was a trailblazing Indian politician and social worker who broke significant barriers for women in the post-independence Indian political landscape. As the first female Member of Parliament from Assam and one of the first Muslim women to be elected to the...
by Admin | Dec 24, 2025 | Hindi Literature
Moghal Mahmood was a quietly influential twentieth-century writer whose life and work captured the fading world of North Indian Indo-Islamic aristocratic culture from within. Emerging more fully into view through her niece Sara Rai’s memoir ‘Raw Umber: A...
