who is the author of 'india wins freedom'
Abul Kalam Azad Azad was born on 11 November 1888 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. His real name was Abul Kalaam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed who eventually became known as Maulana Azad.[4] Azad's father was a scholar. He lived in Delhi with his maternal grandfather, as his father had died at a very young age. Maulana Azad, in his magnum opus book India Wins Freedom revealed his Afghan or Pashtun ancestry by stating that his ancestors had migrated to India from Herat, Afghanistan, in the days of Babar.[5] During Sepoy Mutiny he left India and settled in Mecca. Maulana Muhammad Khairuddin, authored a dozen of books and had thousands of disciples, while his mother was the daughter of Sheikh Mohammad Zaher Watri, himself a scholar from Medina whose reputation extended outside Arabia.[4][6] In Mecca, where Maulana Azad was born, but returned to Calcutta with his family in 1890.[7][8] Azad began to master several languages, including Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Bengali, Arabic, and English.[4] He was also trained in the Mazahibs of Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali fiqh, Shariat, mathematics, philosophy, world history and science by reputed tutors hired by his family. An avid and determined student, the precocious Azad was running a library, a reading room, a debating society before he was twelve, wanted to write on the life of Ghazali at twelve, was contributing learned articles to Makhzan (A literary magazine) at fourteen,[9] was teaching a class of students, most of whom were twice his age, when he was merely fifteen and succeeded in completing the traditional course of study at the young age of sixteen, nine years ahead of his contemporaries, and brought out a magazine at the same age.[10] In fact, in the field of journalism, he was publishing a poetical journal (Nairang-e-Aalam)[11] and was already an editor of a weekly (Al-Misbah), in 1900, at the age of twelve and, in 1903, brought out a monthly journal, Lissan-us-Sidq, which soon gained popularity.[12] At the age of thirteen, he was married to a young Muslim girl, Zulaikha Begum.[8] Azad compiled many treatises interpreting the Qur'an, the Hadis, and the principles of Fiqh and Kalam.[7]