Hasrat Mohani

Hasrat Mohani: Mystic As Rebel

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A freedom fighter and poet with a grand vision for India, Hasrat Mohani—a communist, a devout Muslim who admired Tilak and worshipped Krishna, and the coiner of the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’—had called for ‘Poorna Swaraj’ from British rule as early as 1921, a demand then rejected by Gandhi but endorsed many years later