Two books by Audrey Truschke under discussion - Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth (New Delhi: Sage, 2017) and Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Gurgaon: Allen Lane, 2016)
Discussants: Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi; Prof. Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi; and Prof. Najaf Haider, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Chair: Prof. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi At India International Centre, New Delhi on 12 July 2017
Workers’ strikes and links between the labour class and nationalist politics were key aspects of the early years of the movement and had become common by early 20th century
The lynching of Junaid (June 2017) in the outskirts of Delhi, in a train, did come as a saturation point in the conscience of large sections of society. To express their anguish people came to streets in great number in a largely spontaneous protest, ‘Not in My name’.
Last month, in a south Kashmir mosque, a fiery cleric in his raucous voice and shrill cries, defended former Hizbul commander Zakir Musa’s call for Islamic jihad. For the first time, a cleric, using his religious pedestal, was exhorting his audience to support Kashmir’s most wanted terrorist who recently aligned ideologically with al Qaeda. The audio recording of Mufti Shabir Ahmad Qasmi’s incendiary speech was widely circulated on instant online messaging platforms in the valley.
We are shocked and angered by the recent Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) demand that certain words be excised from a film based on the work of the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen.
