Letting Azad Win, Hindustan Times

In the third week of March 1940, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad delivered the Presidential Address at the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress, held that year in Ramgarh in Bihar. Azad here spoke of secularism as India's 'historic destiny', proof of which was in 'our languages, our poetry, our literature, our culture , our dress, our manners and our customs', all of which bore the 'stamp of our joint endeavour' (as Hindus and as Muslims). Azad insisted that 'whether we like it or not, we h...