It is natural to love and get attached to people and places. My university, Jamia Millia Islamia is the loveliest place I have ever been in, and unsurprisingly, I have a great affinity towards the institution. The numerous buildings are surrounded by gardens and well trimmed plants. The guards, in perfect khaki uniforms, man the gates. There is this road ...
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Govt. Takes Action, Formulates Policy on How to Make a Rapist [Satire]
[Following is a satirical take on the government’s incompetence in dealing with the culture of sexual violence against women in India. This is a work of fiction.] The Indian State has come up with a never tried before path-breaking formula, what it calls a “sure-shot way to produce a rapist.” In fact, for the first time ever, there seems to ...
Read More »Training Programme in Conflict Analysis and Peace Building Comes to a Close with a Valedictory Function
Violence per se is not negative. Government, media, academia and society must act to address the issues of injustice and violation of rights. These views were expressed by rights activists, members of the academia and other participants at a Valedictory Function here at Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir on 21 December 2012. The function was jointly organized by Nelson Mandela Centre for ...
Read More »Rest in Peace Brave Girl, We Won’t Forget You
As I begin to type this on my mobile phone, I check the time and see that it’s around 6 a.m. on the morning of December 29, 2012. I have been awake all night. Sleep has evaded my eyes for over a week now. And tonight it was worse. Since early in the evening, news was pouring in that the ...
Read More »New Nanotechnology Lab to be Inaugurated on Dec. 28
The Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia will be inaugurating the Nanotechnology Lab. formally. The formal inauguration will be by Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia in a function scheduled to be held on December 28, 2012 at 10 AM in the Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia. The members of the University community will attend the ...
Read More »With the Inauguration of the New Health Center, Jamia Makes History in Event Management
On Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 19, while the national media was busy covering protests at India Gate and not paying attention to other news of national interest, Jamia pulled off a miracle in event management. Jamia managed to pull off a feat so impossible that it defied imagination. According to an official Jamia press release dated Dec. 18, Jamia’s new medical ...
Read More »Jamia Walks in Protest Against Sexual Violence
The entire nation is incensed by the news of the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi on Dec. 16. People have been outraged by it and as result multiple protests have taken place at several places across the city. Jamia has been no exception. The Outreach programme and the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, ...
Read More »Rape Victims Do Not Need Your Sympathetic Death Wishes
The worst part about feeling sympathy for a victim of a crime is that we sometimes think we can understand and feel their pain better than they can. I’ve recently come across such people. People who think that the girl who had been gang-raped and is fighting for her life in a hospital in Delhi, is a living corpse (‘zinda ...
Read More »S.N. Center for Women’s Studies Conducts Self-Defence Training Workshop for Jamia Girls
The Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies in collaboration with the Delhi police conducted a two-week self-defence training workshop in the university gymnasium in which about 150 students from Jamia Girls Senior Secondary School participated. The workshop was held between Nov. 26 and Dec. 13. The director of the Women’s Studies Centre, Dr Bulbul Dhar-James, said the initiative is aimed ...
Read More »“Peace Walk” Pledging Zero Tolerance Towards Sexual Violence, on Dec. 21 at Jamia
The Outreach Programme and Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a ‘Peace Walk’ pledging ‘zero tolerance of sexual violence’. The Peace Walk intends to also create awareness on gender sensitivity. The “Peace Walk” will begin sharp at 2 PM on December 21, 2012 from Jamia Main Campus Gate (Near Ghalib Statue) towards Jamia ...
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