Maulana Azad and Dr.Zakir Hussain.

It is a kind of numerical alliteration. India's first Education minister, Maulana Abdul Kalam 'Azad' was born on 11.11.1888 and he died on 22.2.1958, that translates to this date in year 1958.His grandfather had died in the mutiny of 1857, so his father ran away to the 'Makkah Vilayat'( the present city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia), at was under the Turkish Ottoman rule then, and Maulana was born there. In his hearts of heart, Maulana thought himself as Holier-than-thou-Muslim, by virtue of his birth in Mecca and his (assumed??) Arab lineage.
History may judge him, when it wants to, but it was upon his insistence that Dr. Zakir Hussain stayed back in India, even after having offered "his and his other fellow Muslim's.." services to Mr. M.A.Jinnah and to Pakistan. I had long ago posted copy of his 'offer' letter on this blog earlier

. And Dr.Z Hussain was installed as the first Muslim President of the Republic of India, that is Bharat, at a later stage, by Indira Gandhi. And so secular was Zakir Hussain that he insisted upon One Mr. Mishra, IAS(naming him would be improper), to convert to Islam and live in Presidents palace for one complete year, as a devout Muslim, to become eligible to wed his grand daughter, who had fallen in love with Mr. Mishra. And the spineless Mishra did so.... .
That was Our past President, forcibly imposed upon us by Late Maulana Abdul Kalam 'Azad'!