The Importance of Elon Musk

The woke-liberal dream of eventually shaping the...

FPI inflows to boost India’s business

NEW DELHI: Fin min’s monthly economic report highlights...

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When Afghans ruled over Hindustan

The contemporary crisis in Afghanistan, mainly caused by violent foreign interventions and concomitant rise of religious intolerance, is somewhat demeaning and demoralising to a...

FDI alone won’t remedy higher education

What would be the purpose of, and response in academia of 100% foreign direct investment in higher education? The state of higher education in...

FDI alone won’t remedy higher education

What would be the purpose of, and response in academia of 100% foreign direct investment in higher education? The state of higher education in...

FDI alone won’t remedy higher education

What would be the purpose of, and response in academia of 100% foreign direct investment in higher education? The state of higher education in...

Look into the past for a lesson in diplomacy

This holy month of Ramzan makes one remember the brotherhood of Islam and India’s policies especially as regards its Muslim neighbours and the Islamic...

Look into the past for a lesson in diplomacy

This holy month of Ramzan makes one remember the brotherhood of Islam and India’s policies especially as regards its Muslim neighbours and the Islamic...

Look into the past for a lesson in diplomacy

This holy month of Ramzan makes one remember the brotherhood of Islam and India’s policies especially as regards its Muslim neighbours and the Islamic...

Mughal art, monuments and self representation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fascination for selfies may not be a childish obsession with a modern day toy as some of his critics may...

Mughal art, monuments and self representation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fascination for selfies may not be a childish obsession with a modern day toy as some of his critics may...

Mughal art, monuments and self representation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fascination for selfies may not be a childish obsession with a modern day toy as some of his critics may...

Political order depends on religious harmony

Nahjul Balagha, or the Peak of Eloquence, contains a large number of sermons, letters and sayings of Imam Ali ibn abi Talib, cousin and...

Political order depends on religious harmony

Nahjul Balagha, or the Peak of Eloquence, contains a large number of sermons, letters and sayings of Imam Ali ibn abi Talib, cousin and...

Political order depends on religious harmony

Nahjul Balagha, or the Peak of Eloquence, contains a large number of sermons, letters and sayings of Imam Ali ibn abi Talib, cousin and...

Medieval wisdom of modern relevance

Thirteenth-century Persian poet, Sa’di Shirazi’s classic twin-volume Gulistan (Rose Garden) and Bostan (The Orchard) offer anecdotes (hikayat) in prose and poetry comprising words of...

Medieval wisdom of modern relevance

Thirteenth-century Persian poet, Sa’di Shirazi’s classic twin-volume Gulistan (Rose Garden) and Bostan (The Orchard) offer anecdotes (hikayat) in prose and poetry comprising words of...

Medieval wisdom of modern relevance

Thirteenth-century Persian poet, Sa’di Shirazi’s classic twin-volume Gulistan (Rose Garden) and Bostan (The Orchard) offer anecdotes (hikayat) in prose and poetry comprising words of...

Sufism set the tone for religious co-existence

The political use of Sufism is not a new thing. Rulers have always tried to invoke popular religion and spirituality for the legitimation of...

Sufism set the tone for religious co-existence

The political use of Sufism is not a new thing. Rulers have always tried to invoke popular religion and spirituality for the legitimation of...

Sufism set the tone for religious co-existence

The political use of Sufism is not a new thing. Rulers have always tried to invoke popular religion and spirituality for the legitimation of...

Historians have ignored Urdu literature treasure

Current researches on early modern economic history have already moved away from the long-drawn and circuitous debate on Mughal decline. Some recent works have...

Historians have ignored Urdu literature treasure

Current researches on early modern economic history have already moved away from the long-drawn and circuitous debate on Mughal decline. Some recent works have...

Historians have ignored Urdu literature treasure

Current researches on early modern economic history have already moved away from the long-drawn and circuitous debate on Mughal decline. Some recent works have...

An unnecessary crisis in JNU

As someone who has spent seven formative years in Jawaharlal Nehru University through the 1990s, training as a researcher and undergoing a process of...

An unnecessary crisis in JNU

As someone who has spent seven formative years in Jawaharlal Nehru University through the 1990s, training as a researcher and undergoing a process of...

An unnecessary crisis in JNU

As someone who has spent seven formative years in Jawaharlal Nehru University through the 1990s, training as a researcher and undergoing a process of...

Muslims must not justify triple-talaq, polygamy

It is indeed a travesty of Islam that people who claim to follow it themselves do not seem to abide by the true spirit...

Muslims must not justify triple-talaq, polygamy

It is indeed a travesty of Islam that people who claim to follow it themselves do not seem to abide by the true spirit...

Muslims must not justify triple-talaq, polygamy

It is indeed a travesty of Islam that people who claim to follow it themselves do not seem to abide by the true spirit...

When Hindus wrote in Persian

There was a time in India’s medieval and early modern history when some of the finest masterpieces in Hindi were written by Muslims and...

When Hindus wrote in Persian

There was a time in India’s medieval and early modern history when some of the finest masterpieces in Hindi were written by Muslims and...

When Hindus wrote in Persian

There was a time in India’s medieval and early modern history when some of the finest masterpieces in Hindi were written by Muslims and...

The making of Islam in India

Ideology-driven research agenda, left or right of the centre, and divergent Hindu-Muslim interpretations of India’s medieval past have less to do with any serious...

The making of Islam in India

Ideology-driven research agenda, left or right of the centre, and divergent Hindu-Muslim interpretations of India’s medieval past have less to do with any serious...

The making of Islam in India

Ideology-driven research agenda, left or right of the centre, and divergent Hindu-Muslim interpretations of India’s medieval past have less to do with any serious...

On academia and the tragedy of secularism

The tragedy of secularism in India is that those who talk about it most do not practise it themselves. Mullahs claiming to be secular...

On academia and the tragedy of secularism

The tragedy of secularism in India is that those who talk about it most do not practise it themselves. Mullahs claiming to be secular...

On academia and the tragedy of secularism

The tragedy of secularism in India is that those who talk about it most do not practise it themselves. Mullahs claiming to be secular...

History is written by the conquerors

Zia-ud-Din Barani’s mid-14th century Tarikh-i Firuzshahi is one of the finest examples of Indo-Persian historiography, a text much abused in modern times by colonial...

History is written by the conquerors

Zia-ud-Din Barani’s mid-14th century Tarikh-i Firuzshahi is one of the finest examples of Indo-Persian historiography, a text much abused in modern times by colonial...

History is written by the conquerors

Zia-ud-Din Barani’s mid-14th century Tarikh-i Firuzshahi is one of the finest examples of Indo-Persian historiography, a text much abused in modern times by colonial...

Celebrate India’s peace-loving image

The enduring international image of India is of a peace-loving country with a long history celebrating the language of love and tolerance amongst its...

Celebrate India’s peace-loving image

The enduring international image of India is of a peace-loving country with a long history celebrating the language of love and tolerance amongst its...

Celebrate India’s peace-loving image

The enduring international image of India is of a peace-loving country with a long history celebrating the language of love and tolerance amongst its...

Sectarianism will not do Islam any good

This Eid celebration was spent thinking of two disturbing propositions in Muslim history. The first was on the difference in being irreligious in a...

Sectarianism will not do Islam any good

This Eid celebration was spent thinking of two disturbing propositions in Muslim history. The first was on the difference in being irreligious in a...

Sectarianism will not do Islam any good

This Eid celebration was spent thinking of two disturbing propositions in Muslim history. The first was on the difference in being irreligious in a...

Space for new research will help History grow

What is at stake in the controversies surrounding the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is the autonomy of the discipline of history. Every...

Space for new research will help History grow

What is at stake in the controversies surrounding the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is the autonomy of the discipline of history. Every...

Space for new research will help History grow

What is at stake in the controversies surrounding the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is the autonomy of the discipline of history. Every...

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