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Narendra Modi s vendetta against free-thinking academics
Dozens of academics, writers and civic activists have been arrested in India on charges of sedition, terrorism and inciting violence. Sruti Bala asks why a country that sees itself as a global power in the knowledge economy of the future is turning on its public intellectuals? Suspicious literature is how India s National Investigation Agency described publications owned by Dr Hany Babu. These supposedly dangerous publications included academic texts such as a historical study of caste and a sociological study of rural uprisings against land alienation and developmental projects in India. The 54-year-old, who is associate professor of English at Delhi University, was arrested in July 2020 on suspicion of propagating Naxal activities and Maoist ideology .
Rahim: The poet, soldier and one of Akbar’s nine gems
Perhaps the most lasting legacy of Rahim is in the form of the 700-odd couplets that have over the years become an important part of Hindi school textbooks. “That is his immortality. A man from Akbar’s time whom every school child in the Hindi region knows,” says Harish Trivedi, professor of English at Delhi University.
Writer Rakhshanda Jalil says the greatness of his couplets lies in their simplicity and pragmatic wisdom. “They discuss philosophies and sensibilities that have stuck over centuries and are easy to understand by a 13-year-old even today,” she says.