{"id":49617,"date":"2021-12-29T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=49617"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:22:20","slug":"poet-akbar-allahabadi-named-as-akbar-prayagraj-on-up-education-body-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49617","title":{"rendered":"Poet Akbar Allahabadi named as Akbar Prayagraj on UP Education Body Website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Poet Akbar Allahabadi becomes Akbar Prayagraj on UP education body website, hacking claimed<\/em> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>An Uttar Pradesh government body on Wednesday claimed that its website had been hacked after social media users flagged that it referred to famous poet Akbar Allahabadi as \u201cAkbar Prayagraj\u201d, PTI reported. The name was restored on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syed Akbar Hussain, a 19-century poet used the pen name Akbar Allahabadi, as he was born in a town close to the Uttar Pradesh city. The Uttar Pradesh government had changed the name of the city of Allahabad to Prayagraj in October 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, several social media users shared screenshots of a page on the Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission\u2019s website that showed the pen names of him and two other poets \u2013 Tegh Allahabadi and Rashid Allahabadi \u2013 as \u201cPragyagraj\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The names appeared under the \u201cAbout Prayagraj\u201d section on the website of Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission, an autonomous body under the state government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that the flub may have been a human error, \u201cbecause one cannot change a person\u2019s pen name like that\u201d, The Print reported. Joshi is a professor of history at Allahabad University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From Akbar Allahabadi to Akbar Prayagraji, thanks to the name changing in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UttarPradesh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UttarPradesh<\/a>.<br><br>This on a government website. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gyQ9iUDObW\">https:\/\/t.co\/gyQ9iUDObW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3fnPkZkrne\">pic.twitter.com\/3fnPkZkrne<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gulam Jeelani (@jeelanikash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeelanikash\/status\/1475857705105387526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the commission\u2019s chairperson Ishwar Charan Vishvakarma told PTI that a complaint has been filed on the matter with the cyber cell of Prayagraj Police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was evidently a handiwork of some miscreants expressing their apparent resentment over the change of name of Allahabad,\u201d Vishvakarma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several people on social media criticised the name change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/latest\/1013865\/poet-akbar-allahabadis-becomes-akbar-prayagraj-on-up-education-body-website-name-restored-later\">Scroll.in<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Akbar Allahabadi becomes Akbar Prayagraj on UP education body website, hacking claimed An Uttar Pradesh government body on Wednesday claimed that its website had been hacked after social media users flagged that it referred to famous poet Akbar Allahabadi as \u201cAkbar Prayagraj\u201d, PTI reported. The name was restored on Wednesday morning. Syed Akbar Hussain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}