Hamid Ansari

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

Did we have to play a surrogate's surrogate?

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

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

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

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

That's how Khwaja Ahmad Abbas described himself. Who was he? Why was he what he was? What social and ideological impulses motivated him? Why is his vision of continuing relevance?

Instead of a narrow concept of a singular identity implied by the classical concept of citizenship, the need is to recognise and accommodate the existence of a plurality of social identities.

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

The Vice President's address at the Birth Centenary celebrations of Sachidananda Hiranand Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ (March 7, 1911 – April 4, 1987) PLUS documentaries and recitals

The Constitution maintains a delicate balance between the centre and the states, which is dynamic and evolving and it is confronted with many challenges in this period of great change

'In the past five General Elections the number of winning candidates who secured 50 percent or more of the valid votes polled has varied between 121 and 221; it was 121 in 2009'.