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1 month ago

Donald Trump and the intellectuals: How do we navigate the darkness ahead?

Salon

More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," appeared in a Feb. 23, 1967, special issue of The New York Review of Books. They will uncritically embrace and revivify the assertions expressed in the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy documents, which can be summarized this way: We face a world characterized …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it's Japan — not the US — that's the bigger draw

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Taiwan’s modern-day democracy took struggle and …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it’s Japan — not the US — that’s the bigger draw

Associated Press

TOKYO — One by one, the students, lawyers and others filed into a classroom in a central Tokyo university for a lecture by a Chinese journalist on Taiwan and democracy — taboo topics that can’t be discussed publicly back home in China. AP video by Mayuko Ono “If you are just going to Japan to preserve your money,” Wang said, …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Panel meets Dalit influencers, intellectuals over apex court’s sub-quota verdict

The Hindu

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Tuesday met with a delegation of Dalit activists and thought leaders from across professions to discuss their views and complaints on the August 1 judgement of the Supreme Court allowing State governments to sub-classify Scheduled Castes for quotas. In a post on X, late on Tuesday night, the NCSC said it met the …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Muslim clerics and intellectuals hail Supreme Court’s stay on controversial film

The Hindu

The Supreme Court’s decision staying the release of the controversial film, Hamare Baarahhas been hailed by Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders, calling it a “commendable” step “in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution”. May the people of India stand together against this deliberate ignominy.” Supporting the Supreme Court verdict, Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, president of All India Majlis-e-Mushawarat, umbrella …

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8 months, 1 week ago

'Kerala story' screenings are ‘misguided propaganda:’ Intellectuals appeal for interfaith co-existence

New Indian Express

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : A group of intellectuals have decried the screening of the film ‘Kerala Story’ by a section of the Christian church for young believers as part of what the organisers said was an attempt to ‘create awareness’. “It is most unfortunate that a film made as part of a political propaganda and with little concern for ground facts is …

Christian Intellectuals Appeal

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Vote for Modi to make India world’s 3rd largest economy: Yogi Adityanath

Hindustan Times

Addressing a gathering of intellectuals at a private institute in Gautam Budh Nagar’s Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday urged voters to elect Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party for a third term so as to make Bharat the third largest economy in the world. CM Yogi Adityanath, addressing a gathering of intellectuals at a private institute …

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1 year ago

Dodgy Politicians, Pigheaded Intellectuals

News 18

Doing everything they should not be doing, and not doing anything they should be doing—that is the defining feature of our political masters. Public intellectuals and other opinion makers suffer from thinking paralysis: the thinking process that shaped economic policy and governance in the pre-1991 statist-socialist era has been thoroughly discredited because socialism itself has been discredited and yet, the …

India Delhi

1 year, 5 months ago

Intellectuals urge politicians to be people and farmer-friendly

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Expressing that creation of Telangana did not fulfill the wishes of people as regards getting benefits, achievers from diverse fields on Sunday opined that there was a need to incorporate new issues in the political manifesto, especially those revolving around farmers, students, women, unemployed youth and the common man. This was the outcome of a round table meeting themed …

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1 year, 5 months ago

There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

Salon

In 1950, author and critic Lionel Trilling wrote: In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. The Anglo-Irish 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke is typically held up as the spokesman for the enduring conservative sensibility, and such prominent postwar American conservatives as William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk and George …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Fearing public revolt, BRS govt 'dropped' UAPA case: TUKV

Deccan Chronicle

WARANGAL: Facing an uproar from various people’s organisations, opposition parties and intellectuals and fearing electoral reverses in the upcoming Assembly polls, the BRS government has decided to withdraw the UAPA case against Prof. Haragopal, said Telangana Udyama Karula Vedika chairman Prof. K. Venkatanarayana in a statement in Hanamkonda on Saturday. The people of Telangana would not accept the state government …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Intellectuals stage sit-in against Visva-Bharati’s eviction order to Amartya Sen

Hindustan Times

Prominent academics and intellectuals on Saturday held a sit-in protest at Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district against the eviction order by Visva-Bharati, West Bengal’s only central university, for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate the land on the campus he has been allegedly occupying in an unauthorised manner. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen On April 19, Visva-Bharati authorities passed an …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Etala calls intellectuals to raise their voices against BRS

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Etala Rajendar urged intellectuals to raise their voice against the BRS government over unjust reservations for vulnerable communities. He highlighted the elevation of 22 OBC Union ministers, 12 SC ministers and 8 ST ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, contrasting it to one SC minister per 17 per cent of the population in Telangana and …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Delhi: RSS' Muslim outreach continues, holds meeting with Islamic intellectuals discussing their issues

India TV News

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 's Muslim outreach continues as its senior leaders Indresh Kumar, Krishna Gopal and Ram Lal, on March 1, held a meeting with Muslim intellectuals discussing their issues. 'Those whose ancestors were Hindu are Hindus': RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said those whose ancestors were Hindu are Hindus. While speaking at the Birla Auditorium, Jaipur …

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1 year, 10 months ago

View from abroad | The spread of Western anti-Hinduism

Firstpost

Just as Western anti-Semites are offended by the success of Israel, Western anti-Hinduists are offended by the success of India Why does the West hate India? For the first half century of modern India’s Independence, Western anti-Hinduism was relatively muted. Thus the goals of Western anti-Hinduists align not only with those of anti-India Islamists, but also with those of many …

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2 years ago

So-called Intellectuals and activists joined hands to whitewash crimes of anti-Hindu Delhi Riots 2020 accused

Op India

On December 9, an organisation named “The World Is Watching India” released a propaganda video titled “Global Actors Marking Two Years Since the Arrest of Anti-CAA Protestors under UAPA”. The video claimed, “The protests came from their belief that the new law is a tool to disenfranchise Indian Muslims and was part of the powerful, nationwide anti-CAA movement.” The so-called …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Rajdeep Sardesai declines debate invitation from Salvatore Babones

Op India

After saying that there should be a debate with Australia-based American sociologist Salvatore Babones over his criticism of India’s left-liberal intellectuals, journalist Rajdeep Sardesai has now declined an invitation for such a debate from Babones. Salvatore Babones, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Sydney, had invited him for a debate after Rajdeep Sardesai refuted his views on …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Academic Babones Explains Why India's Intellectuals Must Not Blame Muslims for Their Own Divisions

News 18

India’s Muslims are not the problem and if the country’s intellectuals fall prey to Western anti-Hinduism, the only people they can blame are themselves, noted Australian sociologist and academic Salvatore Babones as he called upon the ‘intellectuals’ to “recognise their common peril”. In an exclusive article for Firstpost, Babones said: “The goals of Western anti-Hinduists align not only with those …

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2 years, 2 months ago

What human nature has to do with rise of ‘far-right’

Live Mint

Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new prime minister, has said that she believes in the Christian God, that there are only two genders, that family is the source of society’s well-being, that abortion is unethical, and she has more than hinted that poor immigrants are a nuisance. Intellectuals call it “the rise of the ‘far-right’," by which they imply that a great …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Botsa asks intellectuals to question Amaravati marchers

Deccan Chronicle

KAKINADA: Education minister Botsa Satyanarayana on Saturday again criticised the padayatra by farmers from Amravati to Arasavilli opposing the three capitals proposed by the YSRC government. Participating in a round table meeting presided over by retired professor P. Chandrasekhar on decentralisation of development, Botsa reiterated that Telugu Desam agents in the garb of farmers are undertaking the padayatra. Speaking at …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Mohan Bhagwat is 'rashtra pita', says top Muslim cleric after RSS chief visits mosque

India Today

All India Imam Organisation head Umer Ahmed Ilyasi called Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat ‘rashtra pita’. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, who has been reaching out to Muslim leaders, had called on the prominent cleric in Delhi on Thursday. Mohan Bhagwat visited a mosque and a madrasa in Delhi on Thursday and held discussions with the chief of the All …

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2 years, 3 months ago

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat meets Muslim intellectuals, discusses religious harmony

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday, met with many Muslim intellectuals including Chief Imam, Dr Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi. After the controversy erupted regarding Gyanvapi also, the RSS Chief met with Muslim intellectuals and academicians. Earlier on Tuesday, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat met with many Muslim intellectuals and discussed recent controversies and ways to strengthen religious …

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2 years, 3 months ago

RSS chief visits mosque amid outreach to Muslim community

India Today

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat met with Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, the chief cleric of the All India Imam Organization, at a mosque in the heart of Delhi on Thursday. Earlier, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat held a closed-door meeting with prominent Muslim intellectuals, former Delhi LG Najeeb Jung, and former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi. A meeting was sought by …

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2 years, 3 months ago

RSS chief holds meeting with Muslim intellectuals, ex-Delhi LG on communal harmony

India Today

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with prominent Muslim intellectuals, former Delhi LG Najeeb Jung and former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi. Former Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor Lt General Zamiruddin Shah, former MP Shahid Siddiqui, and philanthropist Saeed Shervani were also present in the closed-door meeting. A meeting was sought by these prominent Muslim intellectuals …

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Donald Trump and the intellectuals: How do we navigate the darkness ahead?

For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it's Japan — not the US — that's the bigger draw

For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it’s Japan — not the US — that’s the bigger draw

Panel meets Dalit influencers, intellectuals over apex court’s sub-quota verdict

Muslim clerics and intellectuals hail Supreme Court’s stay on controversial film

'Kerala story' screenings are ‘misguided propaganda:’ Intellectuals appeal for interfaith co-existence

Vote for Modi to make India world’s 3rd largest economy: Yogi Adityanath

Dodgy Politicians, Pigheaded Intellectuals

Intellectuals urge politicians to be people and farmer-friendly

There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

Fearing public revolt, BRS govt 'dropped' UAPA case: TUKV

Intellectuals stage sit-in against Visva-Bharati’s eviction order to Amartya Sen

Etala calls intellectuals to raise their voices against BRS

Delhi: RSS' Muslim outreach continues, holds meeting with Islamic intellectuals discussing their issues

View from abroad | The spread of Western anti-Hinduism

So-called Intellectuals and activists joined hands to whitewash crimes of anti-Hindu Delhi Riots 2020 accused

Rajdeep Sardesai declines debate invitation from Salvatore Babones

Academic Babones Explains Why India's Intellectuals Must Not Blame Muslims for Their Own Divisions

What human nature has to do with rise of ‘far-right’

Botsa asks intellectuals to question Amaravati marchers

Mohan Bhagwat is 'rashtra pita', says top Muslim cleric after RSS chief visits mosque

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat meets Muslim intellectuals, discusses religious harmony

RSS chief visits mosque amid outreach to Muslim community

RSS chief holds meeting with Muslim intellectuals, ex-Delhi LG on communal harmony