Najmul Hoda

[Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda]

How did historians become India’s foremost public intellectuals? And how "neutral" can history writing truly be when shaped by partisan political protagonists? I review Shaan Kashyap’s “Who Owns the Past?”, in ⁦⁦⁦@Openthemag⁩ . https://t.co/F0zGCNLSwn

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

Book review: The past, the republic and the historians who shaped them both - In ‘Who Owns the Past?’ author Shaan Kashyap undertakes and ambitious study of the scholars, controversies and institutions that transformed history into a public battlefield, writes Najmul Hoda.
https://t.co/FGF18zqYjt

[Outlook India @Outlookindia]

#OutlookMagazine | The term ‘ethnicity’ has always been a murky concept for me. Not because I don’t understand the theoretical descriptions, but simply because I could not define it for myself; or rather, I found it difficult to identify my own. It would not be a stretch to claim that in my experience, I have felt considerably estranged from culture itself, like a balloon left adrift in the air, floating in limbo, unknowing of its origin and destination. This peculiar and persistent sense of being ‘in-between’ (known or unknown objects) is what sociologists describe as liminality.

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

On the 208th birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, read IPS officer Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda's article on what the 19th-century Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist who founded AMU would have done today

#ThePrintOpinion

https://t.co/Y83IOlQeUR

[Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda]

@TNiazi16 ہے آدمی بجاۓ خود ایک محشرِ خیال
ہم انجمن سمجھتے ہیں خلوت ہی کیوں نہ ہو

[Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda]

@MaliniP Best wishes, Madam.

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@SyedAbidShah Icetronaut.

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@SuhridSD Beautiful

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@SuhridSD Amazing. God bless you.

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@sajjadhist اس سے پہلے کون سے کارنامے انجام دئیے؟

[Vinay Sahasrabuddhe @Vinay1011]

A must read article for students of Indian Nationalism!Very succinctly pointing out that “for Muslims to be fully at home in India they would have to abandon the self-created binary between belief and belonging!” How brilliantly diagnosed! Thx @najmul_hoda ji!

[Rishi Raj @RishiRaj159]

An excellent piece!! These days very few people write offering such clinical, balanced perspective!

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Very finely analysed by someone who understands intimately not only intellectually the specious nature of Hamid Ansari’s premises.

[Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda]

Critiquing Hamid Ansari’s Civic Nationalism Thesis.
My Edit page article in The Times of India.

[TOI Plus @TOIPlus]

Why Hamid Ansari is wrong about Hindu nationalism

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https://t.co/EfOu9iTYCM

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Political Secularism, if merely a state policy, would wither away unless people celebrated it as a cultural heritage.
#SyncreticIndia

[Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda]

India’s secularism is cultural; rooted in Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava, a concept embodying the equality of all religions; and Ekam Sat Vipra Bahuda Vedanti — the Truth is One, but sages call it by different names.
#SyncreticIndia

[Najmul Hoda @najmul_hoda]

@madhutrehan Brought tears to my eyes. Rashmi is a mighty woman who rose up to this challenge, and shaped @SuhridSD into a fine young man and an artist about to take the world by storm very soon. This mother son duo is an inspiration for everyone. God bless both.