Haleem is deeply woven into Hyderabad’s identity and has evolved as an economic powerhouse, a tool for diplomacy, shaping business, politics and community ties across the city and beyond
The system of general education did not figure in the scheme of Nizams till about mid-19th century when Salar Jung-I took over the administration as Diwan in 1853
Instead of enabling close coordination with states to improve educational standards, the UGC draft regulations will marginalise the role of states and curtail diversity
To portray the Telangana peasants’ movement against the Nizam as an anti-Muslim struggle and the merger of Hyderabad princely state with the Indian Union as ‘liberation’ is absolute distortion of history
A nuclear landscape is not necessarily just Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima with their burnt human forms and devastated cities. Nuclear landscapes are terra nullius, nobody’s land, because they have been rendered unfit for life
With both QUAD and AUKUS jostling for strategic relevance, the two left out countries of QUAD — Japan and India —may feel peer pressure to integrate more with the US military alliance system
