Abdul Kalam Azad came into contact with Sri Aurobindo and became a person of revolutionary thoughts

Moulana Abdul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed:(Birth:11th Nov.1888- Death:22nd Feb.1958)

Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad is remembered as an enthusiastic leader of the freedom struggle of India, a great politician, a scholar and an orator. He was scholar of Urdu, Persian and Arabic languages. He was born in the family of a Muslim preacher in Mecca. Two years after the birth their family came to Calcutta. Abdul Kalam was trained according to olden methods and started studying Koran at the early age of fourteen. He received the title of 'Moulana' in his youth and changed his original name 'Muhiyuddin' to 'Azad' (free).

Abdul Kalam Azad came into contact with Shyamsunder Chakraborty and Aurobindo Ghose and became person of revolutionary thoughts. He entered politics and started a revolutionary nationalist Urdu weekly ' Al Halal' from Calcutta at the age of twenty-four only. He started criticizing the British and the sale of his weekly shots up to 25,000 copies per issue. The Government demanded bail from him and compelled to stop ' Al Halal'. After this, he started another periodic called ' Alba lag' and he was detained at Ranchi in 1916...Posted by Santosh Unecha at 9:43 AM