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TopicMaulana Abul Kalam Azad

Topic: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Purely secular education won’t work for India. It has an over-religiosity problem: Maulana Azad

On 13 January 1948, in his presidential speech at the 14th session of the Central Advisory Board of Education, Maulana Azad argued that India could not follow the West in keeping religion out of education.

How an Armenian trader became Dara Shikoh’s tutor, shook the Mughal Empire

In ‘A Drop in the Ocean: The Story of My Life’, Syeda Hameed shares many encounters that gave meaning to her life.

Any decisions about India’s destiny will be incomplete without our consent: Maulana Azad

On 23 October 1947, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad spoke from the Jama Masjid decrying Partition as a fundamental mistake. His advice to Indian Muslims: 'Do not seek certificates from the new echelons of power, or lead a life of sycophancy. If you do not wish to flee, nobody can make you flee.'

Maulana Azad cautioned against ‘nationalism’ in 1947. CAA shows we didn’t learn a thing

On Maulana Azad’s death anniversary, India should remember his commitment to the belief—religion alone can never be the basis for nationhood.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: The man who made India realise the value of education

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was independent India’s first education minister, and his birthday, 11 November, is celebrated as National Education Day.

Maulana Azad — the scholar-politician who laid out India’s higher education road map

As India’s first education minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad advocated for free and compulsory primary education for all up to the age of 14.

On Camera

Racial attack on Northeast people finally has govt’s attention. What about Muslims?

The largest number of victims of identity-based abuse in India are Muslims. In this case, the abuse comes from people at the top, and nobody is willing to do anything about it.

Indian banks speed up bond purchases as holdings near regulatory minimum threshold

State-owned banks bought $2.5 billion of bonds in February, the biggest monthly purchase since 2006, after selling heavily over the past year as the RBI injected liquidity.

Navy, Germany’s TKMS wrap up cost negotiations for new submarines, P-75I deal likely early next fiscal

It is estimated the deal would eventually work out to cost around $9 bn at least for 6 submarines—negotiated down by India. Original bid by state-run MDL & TKMS was over Rs 1.2 lakh cr.

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.