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Topic: Nationalism

‘Was Bhagat Singh only a nationalist?’ Irfan Habib reframes the icon

Professor Irfan Habib says Bhagat Singh’s ideals of justice, rationalism, and equality stand at odds with today’s slogan-driven nationalism.

Trump is ignoring the power of nationalism—at his own peril

Greenland & Panama have shown they will not cave easily as Trump puts their national identity at stake. Each time they refuse Trump, his credibility erodes further.

Indian middle class was once an agent of change. It now takes comfort in militant nationalism

In 'Middle Class India', Manisha Pande traces the evolution of the Indian middle class during the pre-Independence era, through the freedom struggle, and following the 1991 crisis.

Trump, Hitler, Savarkar represent nationalism that ‘narrows minds’—Congress workers’ training manual

The booklet on ideology is part of a training module, prepared by Congress's frontal organisation Seva Dal. The party advocates ‘Indian patriotism, not Hindu nationalism’, it says.

SubscriberWrites: India and its need for a National Strategic Security document

Lately, the political slugfest on national security has turned into a confused silence, as both government and opposition focus on other domestic issues, sidelining its impact.

‘Where’s the rasam in Amritsar’—how one question led this author on a search for inclusivity

Nandita Haksar’s 'Colours of Nationalism' is the second part of a series of memoirs in which she explores India’s marginalised realities through her work as a human rights lawyer.

Bharat Mata image, freedom struggle songs had videshi touch: Harvard Prof Sugata Bose

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.

Not 1952, India’s electoral history started before Independence

Marya Shakil and Narendra Nath Mishra’s ‘India on the Move’ attempts to view events following the JNU event, the farmers’ protest, Balakot strikes and the subsequent unravelling of deep fissures within us.

Buddhism was used to promote nationalism. It was declared democratic, Aryan and Sanatan

In ‘Democracy’s Dhamma’, Gitanjali Surendran traces the history of buddhism in the South and South-east Asia and how it interacted with nationalism, modernity, caste and more.

NRC & surgical strikes in 2019 to nari, gareeb & annadata — welfarism over nationalism in BJP manifesto

The latest manifesto is in stark contrast with the one BJP released ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, which revolved around nationalism and the party's core ideological commitments.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

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.

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.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

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.

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.