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TopicAllama Iqbal

Topic: Allama Iqbal

Allama Iqbal is the poet everyone quotes and no one understands. He’s beyond ownership

Iqbal, who wrote ‘Saare Jahan Se Achha’ in 1904, was advocating for a Muslim-majority state by 1930s. This ideological pivot branded him the intellectual architect of Partition.

Muhammad Iqbal wasn’t against democracy or a casteist. Don’t misinterpret his work

Celebrating his birthday as Urdu Day in India can be a topic of debate but Muhammad Iqbal is certainly a hero.

Mohammad Iqbal, who wrote ‘saare Jahan se achha’, made modernity a dirty word for Muslims

Iqbal’s poetry was not art for art’s sake. He saw himself as a millenarian messenger for the restoration of Islamic supremacy.

Pakistan’s Asia Bibi episode shows injecting extremists into politics is a bad idea

Imran Khan government's reluctance to confront clerical power makes its earlier promises ring hollow.

Allama Iqbal: Pakistan’s national poet & the man who gave India ‘Saare jahan se achha’

Allama Iqbal is most famous in India for penning ‘Saare jahan se achha’, but it was also on the basis of his 1930 speech that the two-nation theory was formed.

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Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.