Tag: nationalism

While on a university field trip to Cyprus in 2019, I was walking back to my hotel when I heard a song from a Bollywood movie playing at a souvlaki bar in the country's divided capital, Nicosia. As an Indian, it was the last place I would have expected ...

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah recently courted controversy after he stated that the popularity of films like Gadar 2 and The Kashmir Files was disturbing. His comment did not go down well with a certain section, including filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, who helmed The Kashmir Files, and now, senior actor Nana ...

When Sri Aurobindo arrived in the then Baroda state in 1893, it was as much his escape from the English way of life in England — enforced upon his two elder brothers and him by his father — as it was his own urge to explore the growing ‘nationalist’ ...

Nationalism assumes that it brings about the uniting of communities on a substantial scale and, for the first time, in a new mode. The loyalty of citizens is to a new structure, namely, the nation-state. The single unitary purpose is the construction of the nation, that is of citizens ...

In 2019, the BJP, which adheres to a Hindu nationalist ideology, controversially scrapped the autonomous status that its half of Jammu and Kashmir had enjoyed since independence, then India’s only Muslim-majority state, bringing it under central control. Over 70 years ago, the United Nations Security Council called on India ...

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at the Narendra Modi government over the Agnipath Scheme, claiming that any Agniveers will be unemployed for the rest of their lives after training for six months and working for the country for four years.Watch | At Bharat Jodo Yatra in ...

When India gained its independence from Britain in 1947, its founding fathers envisioned the newly free nation as a secular multicultural state.  Over the next 75 years, the South Asian country has transformed from being poverty-stricken into one of the world's fastest-growing economies. It has also emerged as a ...

https://sputniknews.com/20220722/indias-pm-modi-launches-national-flag-hoisting-campaign-ahead-of-75th-independence-day-1097684599.htmlIndia's PM Modi Launches National Flag Hoisting Campaign Ahead of 75th Independence DayIndia's PM Modi Launches National Flag Hoisting Campaign Ahead of 75th Independence DayThe Narendra Modi-led BJP has been boosting patriotic sentiments among Indians with a series of citizen-centric movements since 2014. 22.07.2022, Sputnik International2022-07-22T09:56+00002022-07-22T09:56+00002022-07-22T09:56+0000narendra modiindiaflagbharatiya janata party ...

Could India’s fraught domestic politics hinder the country’s transformation into a leading global power? The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s increasingly shrill brand of Hindu nationalism has inflamed religious animosity within the country. It’s now complicating relationships outside Indian borders as well.The problem’s latest incarnation: disparaging comments BJP officeholders recently ...

Islamabad , April 21 (ANI): Former Afghanistan Ambassador Jawid Ahmad said that ousted former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan made 'dangerous allegations' by accusing the United States of plotting conspiracy against him. In an opinion piece, written along with Douglas London, a professor at Georgetown University's School of ...