View from Pakistan: The history wars
9 years, 3 months ago

View from Pakistan: The history wars

Deccan Chronicle  

Karachi: It is not news that the ascent of Narendra Modi has marked a change in India’s outlook on its past. It is no surprise, then, that the effort to rewrite Indian history, such that it fits better with a narrative of Hindu supremacy, has spread into India’s academia. In his address, head of the department, Ramesh Bhardwaj, said, “The time of the Vedas cannot be asserted before 6,000 BC and thus Vedic civilisation is proved more ancient than the Indus Valley civilisation.” Archaeological, literary and astronomical evidence, Bhardwaj insisted, confirmed that the Vedas, which are the Hindu scriptures, are actually 4,500 years older than had been previously believed. Given India’s increasingly authoritarian climate and the attacks on free speech, it is likely that the historians of Delhi University’s Sanskrit department will enjoy some favour with the Modi government. Just as the old dating of the Vedas does not fit in with the Modi government’s understanding of India, Pakistan’s pre-Islamic history are of little political use.

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Al Jazeera  

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2 years, 9 months ago

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India TV News  

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The Quint  

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News 18  

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Firstpost  

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Live Mint  

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Hindustan Times  

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India TV News  

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The Quint  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Firstpost  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Op India  

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Ram Guha, you cannot peddle the Pakistani narrative at the international level without people questioning your patriotism
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Op India  

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5 years, 7 months ago

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India TV News  

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6 years ago

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The Quint  

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6 years ago

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Op India  

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6 years, 3 months ago

Opinion | A new road to Pakistan: hope floats or deja vu?

Live Mint  

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6 years, 7 months ago

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Hindustan Times  

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6 years, 8 months ago

Shashi Tharoor is wrong : It is in fact Congress that takes inspiration from Pakistan. Here’s how

Op India  

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Can't choose your neighbour, but... why talk!
7 years, 2 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

Except for a Black Swan event, relations between India and Pakistan are going to remain in a deep freeze in 2018, and perhaps even beyond. Third, if anything, relations have gone even further south in 2017 and hostility, bitterness, anger and distrust, have risen exponentially with terrorists being pushed in, violence being engineered and instigated, propaganda machinery working overtime to …

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7 years, 4 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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7 years, 5 months ago

The headlines that were not – how The Hindu is consumed by agenda peddling

Op India  

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70 years since Partition, Pakistan still hasn’t been able to separate itself from India
7 years, 7 months ago

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The Independent  

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8 years, 5 months ago

Are Pakistan’s moderate voices rising against military-jihadist nexus?

Live Mint  

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8 years, 7 months ago

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Firstpost  

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9 years, 2 months ago

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Firstpost  

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Pakistan is the original “Islamic State”, much before ISIS: Tarek Fatah at India Ideas Conclave 2015
9 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan is the original “Islamic State”, much before ISIS: Tarek Fatah at India Ideas Conclave 2015

Op India  

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Book review 'Creating a New Medina': Re-tracing Pakistan’s polemical origins
9 years, 9 months ago

Book review 'Creating a New Medina': Re-tracing Pakistan’s polemical origins

Deccan Chronicle  

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Pakistan: A once dangerous idea
9 years, 11 months ago

Pakistan: A once dangerous idea

Live Mint  

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Pakistanisation of India
10 years, 2 months ago

Pakistanisation of India

Deccan Chronicle  

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LoC violation: Liberals are ignoring the reality of Pakistan
12 years, 2 months ago

LoC violation: Liberals are ignoring the reality of Pakistan

Firstpost  

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Mani Shankar Aiyar's rude intro to Pak jihadi hatred
13 years, 1 month ago

Mani Shankar Aiyar's rude intro to Pak jihadi hatred

Firstpost  

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Erasing memory to deal with loss
13 years, 3 months ago

Erasing memory to deal with loss

The Hindu  

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Historiographers, Not History Divided India, Pakistan, Says Mani Shankar Aiyar
13 years, 4 months ago

Historiographers, Not History Divided India, Pakistan, Says Mani Shankar Aiyar

India TV News  

Karachi, Nov 13: Former Union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday told a conference here that historiographers, not history, were responsible for dividing India and Pakistan, reports Dawn newspaper. Speaking at the conference on “Situation in South Asia” at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Aiyar said Pakistan was an irreversible historical fact and that “India and …

God's soldiers: Pakistan army's ideology
13 years, 5 months ago

God's soldiers: Pakistan army's ideology

The Hindu  

In the autumn of 2002, at the end of a murderous 10-month stand-off with India provoked by the Jaish-e-Muhammad's attack on the Parliament House in New Delhi, a small group of mid-level Pakistan army officers set about debating its lessons. “India is highly volatile on its internal front due to numerous vulnerabilities which, if agitated, accordingly could yield results out …

So you think you know everything about Pakistan?
13 years, 10 months ago

So you think you know everything about Pakistan?

Hindustan Times  

Pakistan: A Hard Country Anatol Lieven Allen Lane Rs599 n pp 576 HT Image Even before the country’s creation in 1947, some were predicting the collapse and breakup of Pakistan. In the words of the writer Nadeem F Paracha: “What was once the lunatic fringe has now become the country’s new mainstream.” When Lieven visited Broomfield Hall, “the school of …

The future of Pakistan
19 years, 8 months ago

The future of Pakistan

The Hindu  

The Idea of Pakistan by Steven Philip Cohen; Oxford University Press, 2005; pages 382, Rs.495., LIKE all else around it, the academic world has been transfigured by the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and their terrible aftermath. Like much of his work, Steven Philip Cohen's The Idea of Pakistan accords primacy to the questions that lie at the core …

Stakes in peace
21 years, 9 months ago

Stakes in peace

The Hindu  

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