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Ishrat Ali Siddiqui was born on 1919 in Hardoi, India, is a poet. Discover Ishrat Ali Siddiqui's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Occupation Gandhian, writer, journalist
Age 95 years old
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Born 1919
Birthday 1919
Birthplace Hardoi, India
Date of death 1 January 2014 - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died Place Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality India

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1980

Later, Siddiqui joined Sevagram of Mahatma Gandhi, and spent many years at the Ashram. He is known to have involved with the Indian freedom movement and at the time of the partition of India, he protested against it. After the Indian independence, he joined the Indian National Congress sponsored Quami Awaz, a sister publication of The National Herald in Urdu, as its editor. During the emergency period, he protested against the press censorship imposed by Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, while his colleagues maintained silence. In 1980, when Indira Gandhi returned to power after remaining out of office for three years (1977-1980) for her third term as the prime minister, Siddiqui was appointed as a member of the Second Press Commission. The commission, reportedly on Siddiqui's advice, submitted proposals for the modernization of Kitabat (Urdu calligraphy) and Urdu journalism. He also served the president of the Uttar Pradesh Working Journalists' Union and Uttar Pradesh Press Club and was a councilor of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists (IFWJ).

1974

Siddiqui was awarded the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1974. He died on the New Year day of 2014, at Balrampur hospital, where he had been admitted following a domestic accident occurred at his residence in Jamboorkhana. He is survived by his son and daughter, his wife preceding him in death.

1919

Ishrat Ali Siddiqui (1919-2014) was an Indian gandhian, poet of Urdu literature and a former editor of the Urdu daily, Quami Awaz. He was known for his protest against the press censorship imposed by the then prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi in the mid 1970s. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri in 1974.

Ishrat Ali Siddiqui was born in 1919 in Hardoi, a small town on the banks of River Ganges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. After completing his education in the state capital of Lucknow, he moved to Hyderabad where he worked as the editor of the Urdu daily, Payam, and Hindustan during which period his articles on nationalism earned him the wrath of the ruler of Hyderabad, Nizam Osman Ali.