- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
by Amit Roy IF YOU are comfortably seated, here is your starter question for 10: what row unites Oxford and Aligarh Muslim universities? The answer is, of course, a controversy over removing portraits. Since 1938, the Aligarh Muslim University, a respected educational establishment in India founded in 1875, has had a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, once a champion of Hindu-Muslim unity, but later the foremost champion of a separate Pakistan for India’s Muslims. It is for this reason that the present chief minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, wants Jinnah’s portrait to be…
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