The article was originally published in The Frontline in its print edition- November 28, 2014. ___ In popular discourse in India, Sufism has ceased to be what it has always been—a quest for the Divine within man. It has instead become commerce. Mountebanks and tradesmen make it a form of entertainment in which music is…
Dear Prime Minister I am a Ph.D student from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Although I have qualified UGC-NET, SET and BSR but due to loopholes in our education system, I have been receiving only the non-NET fellowship (like many others) so far i.e. Rs.8000 per month. An amount which is far less than the amount…
This is Presidential Address by Maulana Azad to 53rd Session of Indian National Congress, Ramgarh, 1940 Friends, In 1923 you elected me President of this National Assembly. For the second time, after seventeen years, you have once again conferred upon me the same honour. Seventeen years is not a long period in the history of…
Nehru’s address to the National Academy of Sciences at their annual meeting held at Allahabad on March 05, 1938. Friends, You are men of learning and many of you have distinguished records in the realm of science. Yet you have honoured me, an outsider, with an inivitation to participate in this annual gathering of yours…
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) is one of the architects of modern India. He contributed many of the essential elements to the development of modern Indian society and paved the way for the growth of a healthy scientific attitude of mind which is a sine qua non for advancement, both material and intellectual. Through his dynamism, he…
Most of us, unhappily, are too much engrossed in the business of politics to pay much attention to the finer and more important aspects of life. That is natural, perhaps, in a nation which struggles for national freedom and to rid itself of the bonds that prevent normal growth. Like a person in the grip…
This is the text of lecture delivered by Prof. Irfan Habib at Kennedy Auditorium, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh on October 07, 2015. He talked on “Building the Idea of India”. TO DOWLNLOAD PDF OF THE LECTURE, CLICK HERE _ Young Friends, As in the preliminary remarks it was said that the concept of India is…
