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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.

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Let me explain the K-drama addiction. I, too, am an addict

The three Ghaziabad sisters were lonely. None of them had gone to school after the Covid-19 pandemic. K-dramas offered them solace.

Key grant cut, cash-strapped Himachal slaps a hydropower land cess. Why Punjab is seeing red

With 16th Finance Commission stopping revenue deficit grant to states, Himachal Pradesh is likely to suffer a loss of ‘Rs 50,000 cr over five years’.

Trade deal sorted, India & US move on to pending defence pacts—P-8I aircraft first, engines next

Defence Acquisition Council likely to take up P-8I procurement, cleared in 2019, in third week this month. Proposed joint production of GE F414-INS6 engine also on agenda.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.