‘Ab Ki Baar 400 Paar’ may have its genesis in a heated debate between Jawaharlal Nehru and Syama Prasad Mookerjee, when the latter warned Nehru he would crush his 'crushing mentality'.
The Ram Nath Kovind-led panel has listed the benefits of simultaneous elections. Congress and other parties are opposing it without advancing logically tenable reasons.
In 'Modian Consensus', Swadesh Singh talks about how the Nehruvian Consensus demolished the ideas of the Civilisational Consensus that had spiritualism at its core.
On 22 April 1955, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke at the closed session of the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, where he said there was no no point in blaming the Soviet Union or America and Asian countries must be on the side of peace, not war. ‘If there is aggression anywhere in the world, it is bound to result in world war.’
In ‘Crosswinds’, Vijay Gokhale looks at India’s attempt to carve out a place for itself in the Indo-Pacific in the midst of the Cold War and the role China played in it.
Karpoori Thakur was critical of India's diplomatic distance from Israel. He did not consider Zionism as a settler-colonial project but a legitimate Jewish national movement with unique socialist ethos.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
I somewhat prided myself, I must confess, on knowing whatever was worth knowing about AMU, its past, the way it came into being, the idea behind it and so forth. But that was before reading this article by this intrepid and towering intellectual, Ibn Khaldun Bharati. He is in a class of his own… This piece presents such a coherent account of the formation and the legacy of one of the most talked-about and argued-about institutions in the sub-continent that I cannot but be awestruck.
I Shariq Adeeb Ansari as a National Working President of All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz I wholeheartedly respect the Supreme Court’s judgment on the status of AMU’s minority character.
However, as an individual citizen, I feel a sense of sorrow, as this decision does not seem to serve the best interests of the community or the nation. It is high time that Aligs move away from a camp mentality, and the broader Muslim community steps out of the persecution complex. Instead, we must focus on aligning ourselves with the national mainstream, contributing to both our community and the nation’s progress.
The failure to do so over the years has unfortunately reduced our alma mater to a localized, self-serving institution—one that lacks the vision and strategy needed to address the challenges of the 21st century.
AMU is the reason why India was divided into India and Pakistan. It is solely responsible for the Partition.
As such, the best course of action will be to shut down the university. Continuation of the university risks further fragmentation of India. Over the last seven decades it has become amply clear that AMU does not identify itself with the Indian nation.
I somewhat prided myself, I must confess, on knowing whatever was worth knowing about AMU, its past, the way it came into being, the idea behind it and so forth. But that was before reading this article by this intrepid and towering intellectual, Ibn Khaldun Bharati. He is in a class of his own… This piece presents such a coherent account of the formation and the legacy of one of the most talked-about and argued-about institutions in the sub-continent that I cannot but be awestruck.
I Shariq Adeeb Ansari as a National Working President of All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz I wholeheartedly respect the Supreme Court’s judgment on the status of AMU’s minority character.
However, as an individual citizen, I feel a sense of sorrow, as this decision does not seem to serve the best interests of the community or the nation. It is high time that Aligs move away from a camp mentality, and the broader Muslim community steps out of the persecution complex. Instead, we must focus on aligning ourselves with the national mainstream, contributing to both our community and the nation’s progress.
The failure to do so over the years has unfortunately reduced our alma mater to a localized, self-serving institution—one that lacks the vision and strategy needed to address the challenges of the 21st century.
AMU is the reason why India was divided into India and Pakistan. It is solely responsible for the Partition.
As such, the best course of action will be to shut down the university. Continuation of the university risks further fragmentation of India. Over the last seven decades it has become amply clear that AMU does not identify itself with the Indian nation.