Dr Shadab Ahmed

Phlebotomizing a fragile and sectarian nation: The Pahalgam brutality and intimidation

April 26, 2025

The torpid town of Pahalgam in the Anantnag district of Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, on the banks of the Lidder River overlooking the Betaab Valley is considered a sacred town in Hindu mythology. The town forms the base camp for the Amarnath Yatra to the Amarnath temple that...

The impact of research and publications in ranking & accreditation

April 14, 2025

Ranking & Accreditation of colleges and Universities plays a significant and pivotal role in the overall development of the Indian higher education system. It enables both the parents and students to find the institutions and programs of their choice. With the advent of globalisation and the inclusion of education as...

Commodifying ranking & accreditation in higher education

March 20, 2025

Education has always remained the path to evolution and amelioration of society as a whole. In the contemporary competitive Indian job sector, education is what structures a student’s career colossally. Parents nurture the silent desire to send their progeny to the best institutes, colleges and universities, aspiring to secure their...

David slays the Goliath : Analysing the Delhi Elections 2025

February 24, 2025

Shri Narendra Modi emerged unexpectedly as the proverbial “David” of the Indian politics at the 2014 Indian general elections, when his Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) crushed the Indian National Congress (INC) by a decisive people’s mandate, catapulting him to the throne at Delhi, the axiomatic heart of Hindustan. From a...

India’s strategic acclimatisation and transactional germination in Trump 2.0 dominion

January 27, 2025

Donald John Trump, the quondam 45th President and the extant 47th President of the United States of America has come a long way grappling and wrestling with the Democrats after his Iowa Republican Presidential caucuses in 2024. The Presidential victory gave Trump the American people’s mandate to govern decisively, at...

Decoding the mantra between corporate benevolence and productive transcendence

December 4, 2024

To be productive and effective across healthcare operations in digital India, institutions and organizations are promoting the concept of “Work-Life Balance”. You work at work, you take care of life issues otherwise. This objective mantra of corporate benevolence demands a stabilized and sustainable equipoise between a healthy, stress-free working lifestyle...

Persian translation of the Mahabharata, an illiterate Mughal emperor’s curiosity

November 25, 2024

At the time when the Sultanate Hyenas, particularly the Tughlaqs in Turko-Afghan factional India advertised their sordid saga of assassinations, usurpations and rebellions, the political scene of India changed dramatically. The cause of this change was the invasion of India by Tamerlane and his Tartar-Mongol-Turkish hordes from Transoxiana in Central...

A fragmented Manipur: Meitei-Kuki nationalism & religio-radical ethnocentrism

November 18, 2024

The Ningthouja Dynasty established by the Meitei monarch Nongda Lairen Pakhangba enthroned themselves at Kangla in the Imphal Valley by the turn of the century. Under this dynasty, Manipur got governed by 6 Royal Houses under an assortment of Meitei Emperors, Kings, Maharajas, Prince and Princesses. Intermittently invaded by the...

Linguistic Imperialism and Politicization in India

November 15, 2024

Boasting as one of the oldest civilizations of the world, contemporary India is home to a multitude of regional and local dialects under the paternity of English and maternity of Hindi. The Indian linguistic culture assimilated various languages and dialects throughout centuries as it came with her invaders, conquerors and...

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