MAULANA  ABUL  KALAM  A ZAD                  Maulana Abul Kalam was born in Mecca in 1888. He came with his family to  Calcutta, India  in 1890. As he grew up, he adopted the pen name 'Azad' to indicate that he  was no longer tied to the  inherited beliefs of his family. He tried to convince his Hindu  friends that they should not generalise  from their experience of a few Muslim officers in  Bengal, and that they should not think that Muslims  as a community were their enemies.                 He joined the Congress party and became a close associate of Gandhiji. When  second world  war started, Maulana Azad was of the view that India should cooperate with  the allies in war efforts...