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Ashok Kaul

Ashok Kaul

Greater Kashmir

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Reconciliation: Need of the times

This century at the close of its first quarter has brought more unpredictability than expected. The reason is that first time the hard ware and the...

03.04.2024 9

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Ashok Kaul

A need for new role models

When politicians or professionals teach religion, it is divisive and disturbing. When humanists and artists and teachers  discuss religion in...

13.03.2024 8

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Ashok Kaul

An opportunity for reconciliation, not triumphalism

Professor Harish Chander Srivastava would teach us Sociological Theory. One of the finest teachers we had in the university – straightforward,...

05.02.2024 5

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Ashok Kaul

A new churning

Behardin sahib was a respected supervisor in Mechanical Engineering Department in 70,80s, in IIT Banaras Hindu University. He was a decent...

15.01.2024 8

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Sustaining our cultural capital

I wonder if there is a public ‘Retirement Day’ also. A few really want it, but mostly people fear it. Possibly, it is a phase before final...

08.01.2024 5

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Politics should be morally intrinsic

I asked one of our brightest young family daughters, who is working in US, what was the most difficult conundrum faced by your generation in the US....

23.12.2023 7

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Ashok Kaul

Nationalism and Migration

There is something wrong with the order making. Initially empire building was made on the faith of the empires. Modernity swept it off, it brought on...

22.12.2023 10

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Ashok Kaul

Let regenerative politics have a chance!

The recent triumph of BJP in three states should not surprise the opposition parties, which had been expecting a miracle to happen. Despite Manipur...

13.12.2023 9

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Ashok Kaul

INDIA CANADA DEALINGS | Truth behind the optics

All seemed well between the two countries, until Canadian Prime Minister made that shocking allegation in his parliament that Indian government...

19.11.2023 10

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Ashok Kaul

It is all disintegrating now

Two decades ago, it was sad to know that the couple is divorced a decade after being married. But now it is an momentary amusement to know that are...

11.11.2023 7

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Ashok Kaul

Our prime institutions were singular

Modern times are fragmenting times. Despite our claim of getting closer to holistic education, we feel the loss of what we are rejecting, ignoring or...

18.10.2023 5

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Ashok Kaul

Bandipur and Banaras: The lived life

Living forty nine years in Banaras Hindu University and leaving Banaras at the age of seventy, I have shadowed reflections of a wanderer. My friend...

09.10.2023 4

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Our crisis: A predicament of an age

Although the international changes are so quick and unprecedented, it is not difficult to point out the reasons of our predicament. But it is not easy...

23.09.2023 7

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Revisiting Pluralism: Complimenting not contradicting traditions

I had my schooling at three places, until class 10th. N.M. Higher Secondary school Bandipur, then a year at Ranbir Higher Secondary School Jammu, and...

09.09.2023 9

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