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A selection of speeches by Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari delivered at university convocations, national and international conferences, seminars, professional gatherings, book launches, ceremonial events and formal inaugurations during his tenure, held between August 2007 and December 2012 lends form to some of the most intriguing and unsettling questions and issues gnawing at the very base of the world’s largest democracy. The speeches, covering a ...
The Iranian Revelution of 1979 shook the world and changed the strategic balance in the region. In the build up to the Revolution there was a unity of purpose that was summed up by Ayatollah Khomenini: ?The monarchy must go. The Shah is corrupt. His hands are dripping with blood. He is a foreign agent. He is the Yazid of age." In the perception of most Iranians, a tyrant has usurped the state; its retrieval was therefore essential. Beyond that, however, ...