It was on this day in 1954 when Hamida Banu defeated famed wrestler Baba Pahalwan in just one minute and 34 seconds. Commemorating Banu's victory and to pay tribute to her as "India's first woman wrestler," Google on May 4 put up a colourful doodle on its homepage. Born into a family of wrestlers in the early 1900s near Aligarh, …
Hamida Banu is a name, hard to look past when you turn the pages of Indian wrestling. Regarded as the first woman wrestler in India, Hamida Banu, blazed a trail for generations to follow. As Google Doodle celebrates the first Indian woman wrestler on May 4, let's take a trip down memory lane and trace the history of Hamida Banu's …
Urdu was born in India and was formerly called as Hindvi which means born in Hindustan, said Prof Hamida Banu Chopra during the sixth edition of the Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems, an elective course at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. IIT Gandhinagar hosted three lectures by Prof Hamida Banu Chopra, an eminent expert of Urdu language and literature, …
