5 noted personalities who left Pakistan for India

[agamdilawari]

On May 21, The Economic Times reported that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led national government had granted Indian citizenship to thousands of Pakistanis and Afghans fleeing persecution in their homelands over the past year. In the wake of this development, The Express Tribune presents a list of five luminaries who chose India over Pakistan.

5. Begum Para

Begum Para, the one-time siren of the Hindi film industry, moved to Pakistan following the death of her husband Nasir Khan. She migrated to the nation in 1975 only to relocate back to India two years later, finding it arduous to adjust in. She last appeared in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya (2007). Para died in 2008.

Source: Khushwant Singh, Khushwant Singh on Women



4. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan

Noted vocalist Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan returned to India after moving to Pakistan in the wake of the partition. “If in every home one child was taught Hindustani classical music, this country would have never been partitioned,” he had once remarked. Khan acquired Indian citizenship in 1957. He passed away on April 25, 1968.

Source: Nikhat Ekbal, Great Muslims of Undivided India



3. Jogendra Nath Mandal

Jogendra Nath Mandal, the nation’s first labour and law minister, was a leader of the Scheduled Castes and an ally of the Muslim League. He moved back to India after witnessing the step-motherly conduct of the Pakistani state towards its Hindu citizens.



2. Sahir Ludhianvi

Celebrated Urdu poet and lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi was compelled to flee Pakistan after the government issued his arrest warrants. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1971. Ludhiavi died in 1980.

Source: Mir Ali Raza, The Poetry of ‘No

1. Qurratulain Hyder

Qurratulain Hyder, the grand dame of Urdu literature, had to leave Pakistan following the publication of her magnum opus Aag ka Darya. Hyder, a recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Academi and the Jnanpith awards, was awarded the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in recognition of her meritorious contribution to literature. She died in 2007.

5 noted personalities who left Pakistan for India - The Express Tribune

 

[Pak_Sher]

I am glad garbage collection is done by India.

 

[Gandhi follower]

I am glad garbage collection is done by India.

Sahir ludhiyanvi... Are you sure ?

 

[my2cents]

Sahir ludhiyanvi... Are you sure ?

Except for Bade Ghulam Ali I don't know the rest.

 

[syedali73]

I am glad garbage collection is done by India.

No, except for the first one, the remaining four were all jewels of the crown. The list covers only those who went (back) to India but we have lost far too many who migrate to every part of the world.

 

[Pak_Sher]

No, except for the first one, the remaining four were all jewels of the crown. The list covers only those who went (back) to India but we have lost far too many who migrate to every part of the world.

Economic migrants are a different story. Confused people that came to Pakistan and went back to India shows inconsistency in their decision making ability. That decision making inconsistency is consistent in all the 5 listed.

 

[protest]

Economic migrants are a different story. Confused people that came to Pakistan and went back to India shows inconsistency in their decision making ability. That decision making inconsistency is consistent in all the 5 listed.

The thing is they have seen life in both the countries and thought India to be a better country. I am interested in seeing someone who thought the opposite. In my opinion, even Indian Muslims would be averse to idea of moving to Pakistan, the supposed homeland for all Muslims.

 

[MULUBJA]

They took right decission. As Hasan Nisar quoted some Shayar,"Dhadhakate hue registano ke khatir Mahekta gulistan chhod aye". This was the feeling of many Pakistanis. Some of them corrected the mistake.

 

[Pak_Sher]

These 5 are a very very small minority as compared to the millions that left India to come to Pakistan.

 

[syedali73]

These 5 are a very very small minority as compared to the millions that left India to come to Pakistan.

Yes, a small minority indeed and it is not that Pakistan did not have people like them or better than them.

Ustad Badey Ghulam Ali Khan, very big name, but we also had Ustad Amanat Ali, Salamat Ali, Nazakat Ali, Mehdi Hassan; Ghulam Ali, Bedum Akhtar, Kajan Begum, Roshan Arar Begum etc.

Sahir was a big poet but we had bigger such as Agha Shorish Kashmiri, Qateel Shafai, Jigar Muradabadi, Habib Jalib, Hafeez Jalandhari, Ibn-e-Insha, Jamiluddin Aali, Mustafa Zaidi, Ahmed Faraz, Josh Malih Abadi, even Faiz Ahmed Faiz etc.

Qurat ul ain Haider was a good novelist, but we had Altaf Fatima, Banu Qudsia, Bushra Rehman, Fatima Surayya Bajia, Fehmida Riaz, Haseena Moin, in males, we had legends such as Manto, Intizar Hussein, Mumtaz Mufti etc.

So them leaving Pakistan was indeed a loss but it does not mean that Pakistan was not conducive for artists, and poets, and writers. In-fact, Urdu has almost gone in India and if it was not for Pakistan, Urdu as a language would have lost her identity in the subcontinent.

@HRK

 

[HRK]

Yes, a small minority indeed and it is not that Pakistan did not have people like them or better than them. Ustad Badey Ghulam Ali Khan, very big name, but we also had Ustad Salamat Ali, Nazakat Ali, Mehdi Hassan; Sahir was a big poet but we had bigger such as Qateel Shafai, Jigar Muradabadi, Ahmed Faraz, Josh Malih Abadi, even Faiz Ahmed Faiz; Qurat ul ain Haider was a good novelist, but we had Manto, Intizar Hussein, Mumtaz Mufti. So them leaving Pakistan was indeed a loss but it does not mean that Pakistan was not conducive for artists, and poets, and writers. In-fact, Urdu has almost gone in India and if it was not for Pakistan, Urdu as a language would have lost her identity in the subcontinent.

@HRK

seriously I think this thread should be awarded as one of the most idiotic thread of PDF ever ..... what about those thousand & thousand notable people who left India for Pakistan ..... ??

 

[nForce]

A little different, there is Dilip Kumar, the famous Indian actor, original name Muhammad Yusuf Khan, from Peshawar.
But his family had migrated before partition.

The Government of Pakistan conferred Kumar with Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the highest civilian award in Pakistan, in 1997.

 

[syedali73]

seriously I think this thread should be awarded as one of the most idiotic thread of PDF ever ..... what about those thousand & thousand notable people who left India for Pakistan ..... ??

I fail to understand what sort of axe the Dawn and Express Tribune has against Pakistan to grind? Why they publish such selective and idiotic articles. I mean Begum Para, she went back, so what? Who is Begum Para? An insignificant character actress and Express Tribune is making her returning back to India as if Pakistan lost some great intellectual. Pathetic this English media has become these days.

 

[nForce]

I fail to understand what sort of axe the Dawn and Express Tribune has against Pakistan to grind? Why they publish such selective and idiotic articles. I mean Begum Para, she went back, so what? Who is Begum Para? An insignificant character actress and Express Tribune is making her returning back to India as if Pakistan lost some great intellectual. Pathetic this English media has become these days.

You malign two different forms of media in a single post and then you wonder why Indian media is stronger than it's Pakistani counterpart ?

 

[HRK]

I fail to understand what sort of axe the Dawn and Express Tribune has against Pakistan to grind? Why they publish such selective and idiotic articles.

Oh come on its simple they have to come out as LIBERALS as they know their local readership is limited (due to different factors) therefore enjoy 'limited market' by revenue & size so like any 'sane' businessmen they opted for brand differentiation & Market positioning strategy to keep their limited market 'intact' secondly this strategy earn them some degree of penetration in Foreign Markets as well .... so its just a well thought business strategy for their English media outlets nothing more.