India and Central Asia I have an unenviable task, of being the last speaker in a gathering of scholars without having heard any of them! I therefore h[...]
Electoral Reforms Conference I am grateful to Smt Jyothi Raj for inviting me to this National Conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Campaign [...]
Ba naam-e-khudavad jaan aafarein Hakim-e-sukhan der zubaan aafarein In the name of the Lord, soul-creating! Wise One, speech creating in the tongue! T[...]
I congratulate Saeed Naqvi sahib for having this book, published two years earlier, translated into Urdu, Hindi, and some other of our languages. Thus[...]
General Zamiruddin Shah is a tried and valiant soldier and this book is a soldier’s story of a life spent in the Indian Army and later in administer[...]
It is difficult to initiate the initiated. The task given to me by this august group is daunting more so because all aspects of the subject have to be[...]
In life one is at times deterred by language and at others by the tyranny of terminology. Today is one such case. I was truly frightened by the sugges[...]
Religion, Religiosity and World OrderI deem it a great privilege to be invited to deliver the Prem Bhatia Memorial Lecture and I thank the Trustees fo[...]
Persian Literature in the Deccan States It is not often that a PhD thesis, written and published many decades earlier, is republished. For this reason[...]
NDC – August 1, 2018 I thank the Commandant and the Senior Directing Staff of the National Defence College of India for inviting me today to share m[...]