Zahra Daudi (1923-2003): and some inspiring pages from Bihar’s history   By Dr Mohammad Sajjad A champion of women and labour rights and left-leaning freedom fighter, Zahra Daudi, was born at Chapra, Bihar on 16 March 1923. Her father Maulana Ali Asghar, a staunch nationalist, was close to the luminaries of the freedom movement like Maulana Azad and Dr Rajendra Prasad. Ali Asghar preferred to wear hand-woven Khadi clothes, participated in the Non Cooperation-Khilafat Movement and was a rabid critic of the Muslim League. He regarded Muslim League as disgusting collaborator of the...