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Feb 27, 2024

ADDRESS OF SHRI M. HAMID ANSARI, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, AT THE CONFERMENT OF THE TVR SHENOY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM ON SHRI RAJDEEP SARDESAI, ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2024 AT 4.00 PM AT NEW DELHI

Friends, I have been tasked today to speak about journalism, and participate in conferring a reward on a distinguished journalist of our times. The la[...]

Jan 30, 2024

Communal Discord and Its Social Cost

Communal Discord and Its Social Cost (Convention for Communal Harmony)   Anand Kumar ji, and friends   January 30 is an important date in th[...]

Nov 19, 2023

Smt. Sonia Gandhji ji Shri Justice T.S. Thakur Members of the Jury All the Recipients of the Award through their Designated Representatives present here Friends

The Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust was established in 1985 to honour the life, and propagate the legacy, of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to car[...]

Oct 23, 2023

ADDRESS BY SHRI M. HAMID ANSARI, FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF INDIA, ON MEDIA AND MINORITIES, ORGANISED BY RADIANCE VIEWS WEEKLY, ON OCTOBER 23, 2023, AT 3.00 PM AT INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI

I thank the management of the Radiance journal for inviting me today. Over the years, at home and abroad, I have been broadly aware of its claimto be [...]

Nov 19, 2022

ADDRESS OF SHRI M. HAMID ANSARI, HON’BLE FORMER VICE- PRESIDENT OF INDIA, ON THE OCCASON OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE INDIRA GANDHI PRIZE FOR PEACE, DISARMAMENT AND DEVE4LOPMENT FOR 2021 TO ‘PRATHAM’ ON NOVEMBER 19, 2022 AT 5.00 PM AT JAWAHAR BHAVAN, NEW DELHI.

Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO Pratham Shri Justice T.S. Thakur, Distinguished guests, Ladies a[...]

Oct 21, 2022

ADDRESS OF SHRI M. HAMID ANSARI, FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF INDIA, AS CHIEF GUEST AT THE RELEASE OF THE BOOKS ‘BOOK OF WISDOM’ AND EHSAS-o-IZHAR’ AUTHORED BY SHRI ASHWANI KUMAR ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022, AT 6.00 PM, AT INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI.

Hon’ble Justice, Shri T.S. Thakur, Janab Muzaffar Ali Ladies and gentlemen Naahaq hum majbooron par yeh tuhmat hai mukhtari ki Chahte hain so aap Ka[...]

Jul 18, 2022

Attacking India’s Ex-Vice President Hamid Ansari, the BJP Has Gone Too Far

It is both sad and ironic that just when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hoping to get its candidate elected as the Vice President of India – an[...]

Apr 6, 2022

ADDRESS OF THE HON’BLE FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT OF INDIA, SHRI M. HAMID ANSARI, AS CHIEF GUEST, AT THE BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE URDU JOURNALISM ON WEDNESDAY MARCH 30, 2022, AT 11.00 AM AT INDIA ISLAMIC CENTRE, NEW DELHI.

(URDU TEXT AS DELIVERED ON URDU JOURNALISM ON MARCH 30, 2022, WAS PUBLISHED IN THE URDU DAILY INQUALAB ON MARCH 30-31, 2022) Isi main hogi khuda se bh[...]

Jan 26, 2022

TEXT OF VIDEO MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF REPUBLIC DAY TO HINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER ASSOCATIONS ON JANUARY 26, 2022.

Republic Day 2022 in the 75th Year of Independence India gained its Independence from British rule on August 15, 1947. On January 26, 1950 the people [...]