Talk:Josh Malihabadi

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Biography at Urdupoetry.com

Old newspapaer article on the net

--Amit 181 09:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC) Amit

[edit] Josh's Nationality

Please don't keep reversing mention of Josh's years in India, with the refrain: "He did not have dual nationality." No one is saying he did. But he was a citizen of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1957, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a naturalized Pakistani citizen. A person's nationality at death is not his only nationality. See the wikipedia page on Enrico Fermi, born in Italy in 1901, who emigrated to the US in the late 1930s and became a naturalized US citizen in 1944 at the age of 43. The lead on his page says: "Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development ..." and only much later does it say, "He became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America in 1944."

Or, look at the Wikipedia page for the physicist E. P. Wigner, who was born in 1902 in Hungary and became a citizen of the US in in 1937 at the age of 34 and remained one until he died in 1995 at the age of 92. His lead says: "Eugene Paul Wigner (E. P. Wigner among physicists, his peers) (Hungarian Wigner Pál Jenő) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 ..." Only much later Wigner#Middle_years do they mention: "On January 8, 1937, Wigner became a naturalized citizen of the United States." This in spite of the fact that Wigner was a citizen of the US much longer than he was one of Hungary.

In light of this, it is perfectly plausible to mention both India and Pakistan in Josh's lead. Not only was Josh a citizen of independent India for ten years, but all the places he lived before that were in UP or Delhi, areas that are in current day India and not Pakistan. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 19:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)