After four years of fighting battles with the establishment, students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will finally be electing it’s students’ union on Thursday, March 1, 2012.   In 2008, the Supreme Court put a hold on students’ union elections, citing violations of the Lyngdoh committee’s recommendations on students’ union elections in educational institutions. But on December 8, last ...

The All India Students Association (AISA), Jamia Unit, held a rally in Batla House, Jamia Nagar, on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002.   People participating in the rally chanted slogans demanding justice for the victims of Gujarat violence and decried the government’s failure in holding the culprits responsible. In an ...

The non-academic department of horticulture at Jamia organized a “flower show” in the lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012.   In an interview with Jamia Journal, Khalid Hussain, the garden supervisor, said that this is the first time the department of horticulture has organized such an event. He went on to say, the reason the ...

This year too, Valentine’s Day (henceforth, V-day) was celebrated on-campus on Feb. 14. But this V-day was more holistic than usual. Everyone who celebrated it seemed more spiritualistic and holiness (both terms here meant in the modern sense of the word, and not in the medieval or ancient sense). Every movement of those who celebrated V-day had a holy touch. ...

My happiness is fading away, Our relationship is turning sour. Are the hurdles going to stay ? Coz I don’t wanna fight anymore. You said, I’m never gonna leave your side, But I can sense the distance, unspoken yet wide. You said you love me, was it true ? Or maybe I believed your lie, haven’t got a clue. Everyone ...

[Editor’s Note: Following is a Jamia press release.] Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia is travelling to Islamabad to deliver a lecture on “India’s Search for Balance and the Prospects of a Shared Future in the Knowledge Economy between India and Pakistan” under Distinguished Speaker Series instituted by the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute (JI) and the Melbourne-based Australia India Institute ...

[Report on the second session of the symposium titled “North-East India: Strangers of the mist” has been reported by R. Nithya] To understand the growing dissent and disarray among some sections of Indian civil society, a UGC sponsored one-day symposium, with the theme “India: A Million Mutinies,” was organized under the Human Rights Programme by the Department of Political Science, ...

In collaboration with the National Entrepreneurship Network, the department of commerce and business studies, organized a workshop titled, “Making of an Entrepreneur” on Thursday, February 16, 2012 in the seminar room, department of social work.   Mr. Rajiv Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of the RockeTalk Inc. was invited to the event to address the students. He narrated to them the ...

The Jamia Outreach Programme organized a one-day workshop on conflict writing, conducted by Githa Hariharan, an award-winning author, on February 15, 2012 at the Nehru Guest House.   About the Workshop The workshop considered some major challenges of writing about conflict — be it the more obvious examples of war or riots, or the more covert day-to-day experience of prejudice ...

The Subject Association of the Department of Political Science, on February 7, 2012, screened a documentary film titled ‘Izzatnagari ki asabhya betiyaan’ (The immoral daughters in the land of honour) at its seminar room.   Documentary filmmaker, Nakul Singh Sawhney, dared to take his camera in the lands where the rule of the khap frightens the society to its fingernails. ...