Dr Shadab Ahmed

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...