Monthly Archives: April 2011

Admission Helpline made available at Jamia

[Note: Following is a Jamia press release.] Keeping in view the increasing number of queries and in order to avoid any inconvenience to candidates seeking admission to Jamia Millia Islamia, the university has made available an Admission Helpline through its website. Through this facility, the candidates seeking admission to various faculties, centres, departments and schools at Jamia can directly contact ...

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OPINION: Let’s do an Internship This Summer

These days examinations in various Faculties and Centres of the University (JMI) are going on. Students are busy in putting their best in the exams. The university has announced summer vacation from 16th May to 15th July, 2011. It would be a good experience if the students were to join some institution/organisation and use their two-month long vacation doing an ...

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Jamia To Conduct Common Entrance For Some Courses

[Note: Following is a Jamia press release.] Starting this year, Jamia Millia Islamia will be conducting a common entrance test for some of the undergraduate courses on offer in its Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences. The Common Entrance Test in Faculty of Social Sciences will be conducted across two clusters. One group/cluster ...

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OPINION: An Appropriate Response to Lelyveld’s Book on Gandhi is a Counter Book, not a Ban

Joseph Lelyveld’s book titled, “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India” has brought great discourse on Gandhi not only in India but outside India also, after the book got reviewed by Andrew Robinson for the Wall Street Journal. Andrew Robinson in his book review argues that the book makes claim that Gandhi was bi-sexual and racist. This write ...

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Jamia Turns Shooting Ground For A B’wood Movie

Early Sunday morning on April 3, Jamia was bustling with an unusual crowd. Unusual in the sense that the crowd didn’t have books etc, instead were busy with something else — a film shoot. Jamia turned host for a forthcoming Bollywood movie titled “Sadda Adda,” currently being shot in Delhi. The movie is being directed by Muazzam Beg, who is ...

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