- He was a renowned scholar well versed in Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Bengali.
- He adopted the pen name 'Azad' as a mark of his mental emancipation from a narrow view of religion and life.
- Started a weekly journal Al Hilal to increase the revolutionary recruits amongst the Muslims.
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna in 1992.
- He was elected as Congress President in 1923, becoming the youngest person to hold the office. He was again elected the president in 1940.
- He became independent India's first education minister.
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born on November 11, 1888 in Mecca.
- Azad met two leading revolutionaries of Bengal, Aurobindo Ghosh and Sri Shyam Shundar Chakravarty, and joined the revolutionary movement against British rule.
- He helped setup secret revolutionary centers all over north India and Bombay.
- He was one of the main organisers of the Dharasana Satyagraha in 1931, which was a non-violent raid on Dharasana Salt Works.
- He was a member of the Foundation Committee of the Jamia Milia Islamia which met in 1920.
- He is the author of the book India Wins Freedom.
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