Articles by Hamid Ansari

Hamid Ansari

'Diversity Is An Existential Reality'

Full text of Vice President Hamid Ansari's speech at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, on the...

Jun 01, 2016 Hamid Ansari
'SC Could Clarify Contours For Secularism & Composite Culture'

Full text of Vice President Hamid Ansari's speech at the 16th Convocation of University of Jammu

Apr 03, 2016 Hamid Ansari
How To Judge An Editor

Times change but not the basics. It’s still about how well you walk the tightrope between public interest...

Mar 23, 2016 Hamid Ansari
'Tactics To Suppress Dissent Diminish Democratic Essence'

Vice President Hamid Ansari's address at the first Ram Manohar Lohia memorial national lecture at Gwalior.

Sep 24, 2015 Hamid Ansari
'State's Deprivation, Exclusion & Discrimination Of Muslims'

Vice President Hamid Ansari's speech at the Inauguration of the All India Majlis-E- Mushawarat Golden...

Sep 01, 2015 Hamid Ansari
'A Communicator Of Ideas'

That's how Khwaja Ahmad Abbas described himself. Who was he? Why was he what he was? What social and...

Jun 10, 2014 Hamid Ansari
Identity And Citizenship

Instead of a narrow concept of a singular identity implied by the classical concept of citizenship, the need...

Nov 05, 2013 Hamid Ansari
'When We Introspect, We Need To Be Candid'

'Did we slacken in our quest for quality? Have we kept pace with the changing requirements, nationally and...

Sep 24, 2012 Hamid Ansari
The Unknowable

The Vice President's address at the Birth Centenary celebrations of Sachidananda Hiranand Vatsyayan...

Feb 22, 2012 Hamid Ansari
A Fine Balance

The Constitution maintains a delicate balance between the centre and the states, which is dynamic and...

Jul 12, 2011 Hamid Ansari
Increasing Representativeness

'In the past five General Elections the number of winning candidates who secured 50 percent or more of the...

Jul 08, 2010 Hamid Ansari
'Considerate To The Pardesi But Indifferent To Pardes'

'The study of international affairs in our country is episodic, emotive and inadequate, propelled much too...

Apr 06, 2010 Hamid Ansari
'Ensure Oversight And Accountability'

'There is no reason why a democratic system like ours should not have a Standing Committee of Parliament on...

Jan 19, 2010 Hamid Ansari
Rust On Steel

The civil servants have often enough succumbed to the temptation of tailoring professionally sound advice to...

Apr 29, 2009 Hamid Ansari
'Its (US) Intentions Are Suspected'

The U.S. has been mauled by non-state actors in Iraq; its policies have given an impetus to terrorism; it has...

Nov 22, 2007 Hamid Ansari
Et EU, India?

Did we have to play a surrogate's surrogate?

Oct 10, 2005 Hamid Ansari