Sugata Bose calls it the ‘colourful cosmopolitanism’ and the ‘border-crossing possibilities’ of India’s nationalist freedom movement—where foreign influences could happily coexist with surging patriotism.
When considering practical political issues, the nationalism spectrum has two ends -- moral cosmopolitanism and practical nationalism -- which need to be balanced at all times.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
Nothing to learn from Bongs especially of the ‘intellectual’ variety who have played no mean part in fully embracing dry Western philosophies like Marxism, to the complete exclusion of their own colourful yet sophisticated indigenous social, cultural and economic traditions. Thereby converting West Bengal to Waste Bengal.
Nothing to learn from Bongs especially of the ‘intellectual’ variety who have played no mean part in fully embracing dry Western philosophies like Marxism, to the complete exclusion of their own colourful yet sophisticated indigenous social, cultural and economic traditions. Thereby converting West Bengal to Waste Bengal.
The answer to Ms. Sarojini Naidu’s question posed at the Asian Relations Conference in 1947: Islam and Muslims.