Comments on: City Monument – Maulana Azad’s Mausoleum, Near Meena Bazaar

By: Ehsan Mir Ali Jahan

Ehsan Mir Ali Jahan — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:38:00 +0000

Indeed I concur. No need to despair.

dil naa-ummiid to nahiiN, naakaam hii to hai
lambi hai Gham kii shaam magar shaam hii to hai

By: Naushirvan

Naushirvan — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:43:43 +0000

do not despair;all is not lost! Urdu sarkari sarparasti ki mohtaaj nahin.

Sanskritised Hindi, though very beautiful in its own right,is indeed quite out of place when it comes to being the Lingua Franca of Delhi. Urdu and its ‘mushtarka tahzeeb’ are inextricably linked with my city- so much so, that any attempt to divorce the one from the other would result in a very skewed vision of Delhi’s history. It is time we gave up the narrow inheritance of the Partition era.

By: Ehsan Mir Ali Jahan

Ehsan Mir Ali Jahan — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:26:33 +0000

The Mazar needs to be maintained no doubt. It is in a shameful state! The Delhi authorities have a culture of ignoring Muslim neighbourhoods and shrines’ upkeep. Urdu, the only native language of Delhi, is recently beginning to be represented in the city’s signage after almost 70 years of independence! Just imagine if the partition had never occurred, it would have been the centre of Urdu culture, instead of Pakistan. The authorities here have been too busy pushing for Hindi as the city’s main lingua franca, which ironically has not worked and the layman on the streets of Delhi still speaks more Urdu than Hindi! Oh well, this is what happens in India. One step forward two steps back and one step back if we’re lucky! Sigh!

By: Naushirvan

Naushirvan — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:04:01 +0000

yes, the dirty,dried-up pools! And the hideous bathroom tiles…I think they should fill in these travesties with nice,friable earth( and perhaps transform them into a series of flowerbeds). Or they could build a gallery/museum with Maulana Azad as its theme.

By: Matka

Matka — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:28:34 +0000

Not to mention the dirty pools without water.

By: Naushirvan

Naushirvan — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:26:39 +0000

The Urdu section of the blue board featured at the very top spells Maulana Azad’s name incorrectly. It reads ‘Muinuddin’ instead of ‘Muhiuddin’. It is a pity that the city’s authorities pay little attention to the way Urdu words are spelled on official information-posters and sign-boards.