The Ministry reiterates long-held position that the Kashmir issue is to be discussed bilaterally between India and Pakistan. In a sharp rebuttal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments, the government denied that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had requested Mr. Trump to mediate between India and Pakistan. “We have seen [Mr. Trump’s] remarks to the press that...
“If I can help, I would love to be a mediator,” the U.S. President said. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday offered to mediate the decades-long Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to. “I was with Prime Minister Modi two weeks ago and we talked about this subject and...
This hurts their performance and their post-graduation prospects. Proficiency in only a regional language also restricts them to regional opportunity and discourse. For better or worse, the highest levels of Indian business, bureaucracy, diplomacy, media, education and so much more function primarily in English. A great number of global institutions do so too. Shudras have...
In bringing them to where they are today, MK Gandhi and Ram Manohar Lohia were crucial not just as politicians, but also as thinkers who shaped Indian mores. Both were organic intellectuals of the Banias, both had prestigious Western educations and mastery over English, and both wrote and published extensively. They gained immense stature amid...
NARENDRA MODI BECAME PRIME MINISTER in 2014 on the back of proclamations that he belonged to the Other Backward Classes, implying that he was a representative of the Shudras. Many accepted the proclamation without the scrutiny it deserves. Looking closely at Modi’s caste group, the Modh Ghanchis of Gujarat, we should be skeptical of his assertion...
When the government implemented the Mandal Commission recommendations, in the early 1990s, it was meant to be a watershed moment for the Shudras. The measure reserved positions in government employment and public higher education for the Other Backward Classes—a category made up overwhelmingly of disadvantaged Shudra castes, traditionally labourers and craftspeople. The commission had identified...
Tarannum Athar A great success to Jamia Millia Islamia’s Hindi department, as 23 students of PG Diploma in TV journalism course have been selected in various media channels. According to the data released by the Hindi Department of this academic session that it’s 23 students have made a cut for the various types of jobs...
A village chief and a gang of higher-caste men opened fire on poor farmers in northern India and killed at least 10 of them in a land dispute, police officials said on Thursday. Experts said it was one of the deadliest such episodes in India in years. “It was a massacre,” Roma Malik, an activist...
New Delhi: The Indian education system is plagued with a number of issues, be it concerning accessibility, quality, equity, lack of humanity and values, discrimination, hate content, etc. Today, we are in need of an education system that would be erected on constitutional ethos and ensure that accessibility, quality and equity is ensured for all,...
Sheila Dikshit passes away at 81 in Delhi. Sheila Dikshit, former three times Delhi Chief Minister, has passed away. She was 81. Dikshit was keeping unwell for the past few months. The Delhi Congress president was admitted to Escorts Heart Hospital in the morning after her health deteriorated. She breathed her last at about 3.30...