[Following is a Jamia press release dated June 12] It is a matter of great pride and pleasure for Jamia Millia Islamia that Ms. Anupama Kumari, a student of M.F.A. Final Semester at the Department of Applied Art, Jamia Millia Islamia has bagged the Krishnakriti Foundation Fellowship (in Association with the Embassy of France in India) for the year 2012-13 ...
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Admission Interviews for Mass Comm. will now be Videotaped
According to a Jamia press release dated June 11, interviews conducted for admission to courses in the AJK Mass Communication Research Center will be video recorded starting this academic session of 2012-13. The stated objective for this practice is “to ensure greater transparency and accountability in the process of selection.” Although the recordings are to ensure greater transparency in the ...
Read More »The Curious Case of Mohd. Zamal
According to a Jamia press release, a young man was caught impersonating a test candidate by the name of Mohd. Zamal at an admission entrance test in Jamia on Thursday, June 7. Although Jamia alleges a case of impersonation by the said young man, Jamia is unclear on many of the important details pertaining to the incident. According to the ...
Read More »Editorial: Trashy Indian Cinema is Nothing to be Proud of Professor Kesavan
Mukul Kesavan, a professor in the department of history at Jamia, offers us an interesting explanation to why Bollywood movies are so “trashy,” in his latest article titled “Attitude Bollytude” for Outlook. In his opinion, the reason why Indian cinema is so “trashy” is because the only way to create popular art for such a culturally diverse country like India, ...
Read More »For Jamia Death in the Family is not a Good Enough Reason to Miss Class
According to a Hindustan Times report titled “HC allows jamia student to take exams” dated June 4 — Mohamed Asadullah, a second year dentistry student, was debarred from taking his final exams on account of not having the required percentage of class attendance. He reportedly had a good reason to miss class. During the course of his semester, Asadullah’s sister ...
Read More »OPINION: Is the Arab Spring Challenging Western Hegemony?
The much-touted development in West Asia, dubbed as the Arab Spring, was assiduously watched and noticed by policymakers, scholars and thinkers worldwide. The United States of America and its key allies like France, Britain, Germany, Italy, and most importantly Israel were the ones who most closely and anxiously monitored the situation on the ground. And among several reasons for this, ...
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