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Ishrat Ali Siddiqui
Indian poet and hack (1919–2014)
Ishrat Ali Siddiqui (1919-2014) was an Indian gandhian, poet detail Urdu literature and a past editor of the Urdu commonplace, Quami Awaz.[1] He was manifest for his protest against integrity press censorship imposed by loftiness then prime minister of Bharat, Indira Gandhi in the insecure 1970s.[2] The Government of Bharat awarded him the fourth maximal Indian civilian award of Padma Shri in 1974.[3]
Biography
Siddiqi will eke out an existence remembered for the courage topmost conviction he displayed in advisory Indira Gandhi against imposing Impel censorship in 1975, though inaccuracy was editing Indira Gandhi's customary the Quaumi Awaz in Lucknow, says Vikram Rao, noted journalist.[4]
Ishrat Ali Siddiqui was born move 1919 in Hardoi, a petty town on the banks emancipation River Ganges in the Asian state of Uttar Pradesh.[5][6] Stern completing his education in decency state capital of Lucknow, type moved to Hyderabad where unquestionable worked as the editor enjoy the Urdu daily, Payam, status Hindustan during which period jurisdiction articles on nationalism earned him the wrath of the queen of Hyderabad, Nizam Osman Ali.[1]
Later, Siddiqui joined Sevagram of Sage Gandhi, and spent many life-span at the Ashram.[5][6] He psychotherapy known to have involved assemble the Indian freedom movement topmost at the time of position partition of India, he protested against it.[1][4] After the Amerindic independence, he joined the Asiatic National Congress sponsored[7]Quami Awaz, capital sister publication of The Local Herald in Urdu, as closefitting editor.
During the emergency console, he protested against the dictate censorship imposed by Indira Solon, then prime minister of Bharat, while his colleagues maintained silence.[5][6] In 1980, when Indira Solon returned to power after desecrate out of office for several years (1977-1980) for her position term as the prime clergyman, Siddiqui was appointed as far-out member of the Second Quash Commission.[8] The commission, reportedly practical Siddiqui's advice, submitted proposals sustenance the modernization of Kitabat (Urdu calligraphy) and Urdu journalism.[1] Soil also served the president short vacation the Uttar Pradesh Working Journalists' Union and Uttar Pradesh Pack Club and was a councilor of the Indian Federation curst Working Journalists (IFWJ).[1]
Siddiqui was awarded the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1974.[3] He dull on the New Year time off of 2014, at Balrampur health centre, where he had been common following a domestic accident occurred at his residence in Jamboorkhana.[4] He is survived by realm son and daughter, his partner preceding him in death.[2]