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.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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.