बुद्धि की बलिहारी_Anti India feeling in young pakistani

पाकिस्तान के पूर्व विदेश मंत्री ने हिना रब्बानी खार ने हाल में एक इंटरव्यू में इस बात को स्वीकार किया कि "पाकिस्तानी बच्चों को घृणा के माहौल ने सही सोचने के नाकाबिल बनाया गया। हमारी बतौर किसी से नफरत करने वाले मुल्क की पहचान ने हिंदुस्तान के साथ दुश्मनी पैदा की है।"

यह तो जगजाहिर बात है पर मेरे मन में लाख टके का सवाल यह उठा कि हिंदुस्तान में ऐसे कौन-सी बात है कि कुछ लोग पाकिस्तान से ज्यादा हिंदुस्तान से नफरत करते हैं या सीधा कहूँ तो हिंदुस्तान से ज्यादा पाकिस्तान से प्यार करते हैं। ऐसी समझदार लोगों की जमात में देह से नहीं "बुद्धि से जीविका" कमाने वाले अधिक हैं।

Amartya Sen-Indian Science Congress: Nalanda

Nalanda was violently destroyed in an Afghan attack, led by the ruthless conqueror, Bakhtiyar Khilji, in 1193, shortly after the beginning of Oxford University and shortly before the initiation of Cambridge. Nalanda university, an internationally renowned centre of higher education in India, which was established in the early fifth century, was ending its continuous existence of more than seven hundred years as Oxford and Cambridge were being founded, and even compared with the oldest European university, Bologna, Nalanda was more than six hundred years old, when Bologna was born. Had it not been destroyed and had it managed to survive to our time, Nalanda would be, by a long margin, the oldest university in the world. Another distinguished university, which did not stay in existence continuously either, viz. Al-Azhar University in Cairo, with which Nalanda is often compared, was established at a time, 970 AD, when Nalanda was already more than five hundred years old.

Source: (‘Nalanda stood for the passion of propagating knowledge, understanding': Amartya Sen's keynote address at the 98th Indian Science Congress in Chennai on January 4, 2011)