The Department of Political Science organized an extension lecture by the former Chief Election Commissioner of India Dr. S.Y. Quraishi on “Governance and Democracy: Need for electoral reforms.” The lecture was held at the Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir Building, on Wednesday, 31 October 2012. [Link to Audio] Dr. Quraishi began his talk with the importance of governance in a democracy and ...

The Landscape Foundation India is going to organize a Students’ Design Competition 2012 on “Landscape & Memory” which has been supported by Jamia Millia Islamia among other partners. On this occasion, an Exhibition would be inaugurated by Prof. S.M.  Akhtar, Dean, Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia. The competition is scheduled to be held on November 1, 2012 ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 31, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. The Foundation Day celebrations came to an end on the 30th with a performance by a visiting group of Whirling Dervishes from Turkey called “Konya Turkish Tasawwuf Music Ensemble” who performed on October 30, 2012 at 6.30 PM in Safdar Hashmi Ampitheatre, ...

About the Picture: I saw this cute little rascal near the Engineering canteen on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. There was a whole litter of them there, but this one looked really sad about something. I imagine him to be thinking: I did everything she told me to do; I jumped through hoops and barked like a dog for her; then ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 30, 2012, which has been edited to eliminate redundancy with the previous press release.]  Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. As part of the celebration of Jamia’s foundation day, a Sufiana Kalam was offered by Ustad Zila Khan in the evening on the 29th of October. Mr. ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated, Oct 29, 2012]  Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. The Foundation Day celebrations started at 9.30 AM outside the M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia where the Chief Guest Mr. I.M. Kadri, a renowned Architect and an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia and Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, ...

[Following is a Jamia press release]  The Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize an Extension Lecture by Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India on “Governance and Democracy: Need for Electoral Reforms”. Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia will chair the Lecture. The programme is scheduled to be held on October 31, ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 26, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia will celebrate its 92nd Foundation Day on October 29, 2012. The Foundation Day celebrations will begin at 9.30 AM outside the M.A. Ansari Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia where the Chief Guest Mr. I.M. Kadri, a renowned Architect and an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia and Mr. Najeeb ...

[Following is a statement by the Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association (JTSA), dated 23rd October 2012.] Fasih Mehmood’s Deportation: Déjà vu, once more In September, we brought out a report, Framed, Damned, Acquitted documenting 16 cases where trials of terror accused had resulted in acquittals for not only lack of evidence but obviously concocted evidence. Each of these cases was accompanied ...

About the Picture: I took this picture in front of the geography department last month (September). What’s interesting about this picture, to me,  is that the children walking across the picture are  presumed to be children of construction workers, who are currently building departments and centers of eduction for Jamia. What is unfortunate, is that their children will never have ...