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| name = Ishrat Ali Siddiqui
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| birth_date = 1919
| birth_place = [[Hardoi]], India
| death_date = 1 January 2014
| death_place = [[Lucknow]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| occupation = Gandhian, writer, journalist
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| children = A son and a daughter
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]
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'''Ishrat Ali Siddiqui''' (1919-2014) was an Indian [[gandhian]], poet of [[Urdu literature]] and a former editor of the Urdu daily, ''Quami Awaz''.<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead">{{cite web | url=http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/urdu-journalist-ishrat-ali-siddiqui-dead-1320225.html | title=Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead | publisher=First Post | date=3 January 2014 | accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> He was known for his protest against the press censorship imposed by the then prime minister of India, [[Indira Gandhi]] in the mid 1970s.<ref name="Ishrat Ali Siddiqui">{{cite web | url=http://www.milligazette.com/news/9848-ishrat-ali-siddiqui | title=Ishrat Ali Siddiqui | publisher=Milli Gazette | accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1974.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |accessdate=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==Biography==
{{quotebox|align = left|width=21em|''Siddiqi will be remembered for the courage and conviction he displayed in advising Indira Gandhi against imposing Press censorship in 1975, though he was editing Indira Gandhi's daily the Quaumi Awaz in Lucknow,'' says Vikram Rao, noted journalist.<ref name="Urdu scribe Ishrat Siddiqi passes away">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Urdu-scribe-Ishrat-Siddiqi-passes-away/articleshow/28301324.cms | title=Urdu scribe Ishrat Siddiqi passes away | publisher=Times of India | date=3 January 2014 | accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref>}}
Ishrat Ali Siddiqui was born in 1919 in [[Hardoi]], a small town on the banks of [[River Ganges]] in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali">{{cite web | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/urdu-journalist-ishrat-ali-siddiqui-dead-114010201115_1.html | title=Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali | publisher=Business Standard | date=2 January 2014 | accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead">{{cite web | url=http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2014/01/02/373--Urdu-journalist-Ishrat-Ali-Siddiqui-dead-.html | title=Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead | publisher=News Track India | date=2 January 2014 | accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> After completing his education in the state capital of [[Lucknow]], he moved to [[Hyderabad]] where he worked as the editor of the Urdu daily, ''Payam'', and ''Hindustan'' during which period his articles on nationalism earned him the wrath of the ruler of Hyderabad, [[Nizam of Hyderabad|Nizam]] Osman Ali.<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead" />

Later, Siddiqui joined [[Sevagram]] of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and spent many years at the Ashram.<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali" /><ref name="Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead" /> He is known to have involved with the [[Indian freedom movement]] and at the time of the [[partition of India]], he protested against it.<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead" /><ref name="Urdu scribe Ishrat Siddiqi passes away" /> After the Indian independence, he joined the [[Indian National Congress]] sponsored<ref name="A Nehruvian tragedy">{{cite web | url=http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/zsGIQxAT8qPOHAH1tcEFIM/Dj-View--A-Nehruvian-tragedy.html | title=A Nehruvian tragedy | publisher=Live Mint | date=27 June 2014 | accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> ''Quami Awaz'', a sister publication of [[The National Herald]] in [[Urdu]], as its editor. During the [[The Emergency (India)|emergency period]], he protested against the press censorship imposed by [[Indira Gandhi]], then prime minister of India, while his colleagues maintained silence.<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali" /><ref name="Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead" /> In 1980, when Indira Gandhi returned to power after remaining out of office for three years (1977-1980) for her third term as the prime minister, Siddiqui was appointed as a member of the Second Press Commission.<ref name="Committees and Commissions in India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T9VokjcObL4C&q=second+Press+Commission+in+1980.&pg=PA89 | title=Committees and Commissions in India | publisher=Concept Publishing Company | author=Virendra Kumar | year=1994 | pages=280 | isbn=9788170225102}}</ref> The commission, reportedly on Siddiqui's advice, submitted proposals for the modernization of ''Kitabat'' (Urdu [[calligraphy]]) and Urdu journalism.<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead" /> He also served the president of the Uttar Pradesh Working Journalists' Union and Uttar Pradesh Press Club and was a councilor of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists (IFWJ).<ref name="Urdu journalist Ishrat Ali Siddiqui dead" />

Siddiqui was awarded the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1974.<ref name="Padma Shri" /> He died on the New Year day of 2014, at Balrampur hospital, where he had been admitted following a domestic accident occurred at his residence in Jamboorkhana.<ref name="Urdu scribe Ishrat Siddiqi passes away" /> He is survived by his son and daughter, his wife preceding him in death.<ref name="Ishrat Ali Siddiqui" />

==See also==
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* [[The Emergency (India)]]
* [[The National Herald]]
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{{portal|India|Literature}}

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