Word: bokhari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hampered by official red tape, Fielden hired to help him tall, twinkle-eyed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, who, as a translator for the Army, had become an adept red-tape dodger. By introducing a series of talks on "Widow Remarriage," "Untouchability," etc. he shocked the orthodox public into listening to his Bombay station. Objections were many and various. His assistant was kidnapped, mortified by being left in a bathing suit on top of a hill...
With an engineer and a sound truck Bokhari had toured the countryside to let isolated farm communities hear the voices from the ether. Ryots (farmers) looked upon the sound truck with suspicion: they thought it probably meant more taxes. In one mud village skeptical natives listened in ominous silence to the "voice from Delhi"; when the engineer, hitherto unseen, was spotted inside the van after the broadcast, they clamored indignantly that they had been duped. Bokhari, trying to pacify them, promised to bring the voice back while the engineer remained outside, in plain view. Bokhari threw the switch, fiddled with...
When Berlin's Dr. Faruqui beamed his short-wave newscasts directly into India, BBC really got busy. The doctor's rude comments on the British went down entirely too well with the natives. BBC sent a hurried S O S for Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari...
...London rushed Bokhari to organize publicity, reorganize BBC programs for his countrymen. A friend of Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and other top notchers in the Indian National Congress, Bokhari hopes to make "freedom of India" the focal point of all his broadcasts. Aiding him, is his old boss Lionel Fielden...