Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Faultlines of freedom: The complex ties of Jinnah, Suhrawardy and Gandhi

Suhrawardy’s popularity, unlike Jinnah’s, was rooted primarily in the regional sphere, though he enjoyed a strong base of mass support. Jinnah’s emergence as the architect of Pakistan owed considerably to Suhrawardy’s efforts, yet Suhrawardy, in turn, received comparatively little support from Jinnah.

India’s first talkie ‘Alam Ara’ and Jinnah’s role in it

Alam Ara is a fantasy set piece around typical royal intrigue with a lost-and-found subplot thrown in.