Dr AB Hamid Sheikh
Dr Abdul Hamid Sheikh is an Educationist and completed his studies at the University of Kashmir, with a specialisation in South Asia, Central Asia and Kashmir: Past and Present. He qualified for the National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2013 and State Eligibility Test (SET) in 2017 for Assistant Professor in history. The author has a number of publications to his credit in reputed journals and worked on the Kashmir Silk Route project. He has participated in number of Workshops, Seminars and International conferences.
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Indus Water Treaty – Countering Pakistan’s War of Narratives (Siegfried O. Wolf on Substack)
Putting a water treaty on hold is not the same as stopping a river.
The dispute over the Indus Waters Treaty reveals how water, security and political narratives intersect in a changing South Asia. Understanding it requires looking beyond diplomatic accusations to the infrastructure that controls water—and the institutions that...
Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh (Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf on Substack)
Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh
Can universities sustain democracy when disagreement becomes dangerous?
In “Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh”, Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf argues that the post-2024 political transition has failed to secure independent campus governance. He describes forced resignations, political labelling and competing student organisations asserting...
Did Rabindranath Tagore Oppose the Establishment of Dhaka University? – C282
Separating Historical Evidence from Political Myth
ABSTRACT
Did Rabindranath Tagore oppose the establishment of the University of Dhaka? This article examines a persistent allegation that the Bengali poet resisted the proposed university and even presided over a protest meeting in Kolkata in March 1912. Reviewing the institutional history of Dhaka...