Jamia organized a student cycle rally from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi, officially named “Save Water, Save Earth”  to promote the environmental message of  water conservation. According to a Jamia press release, a group of 25 students (19 boys and 6 girls), along with a few others from the university, started the rally from Narkanda in Himachal Pradesh on February 19, ...

The Horticulture Department organized a Flower Show in the Lawns of Dr. M.A. Ansari Auditorium on Thursday, February 28, 2013. Picture Slideshow:

The Department of Political Science organized an extension lecture by Dr. Justin Podur on the topic “International Aid Politics and the New World Order” on Monday, February 25, 2013. [Audio] Dr. Podur is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has reported on political conflicts and social movements from the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

[Editor’s Note: Following reportage on the MiRAAS festival is courtesy the official MiRAAS blog run by students of Jamia. We reproduce it here as it is.]  Inauguration of MiRAAS Text by Wafia Kissa, Photos by Nabeel Khalid On, 26 February, Jamia Millia Islamia, inaugurated MiRAAS 2013, a three day inter university festival with grandeur. Mr Najeeb Jung, Vice Chancellor, presided over ...

On the surface, life in Jamia is 75 percent compulsory class, lots of extended lectures and countless seminars. But if you looked in the right places, you would find that in Jamia, storylines of Hindi movies run parallel to classroom lectures. Ever wonder what it would be like if Jamia was a movie set? What would it be like if ...

What seemed like a last minute cancellation by Shashi Tharoor of his scheduled speaking engagement at Jamia today, Monday, Feb 25, turned out to be a not-so-last minute cancellation after all. As you can see in the accompanied image of Shashi Tharoor’s tweets below, the time stamp on it indicates that the organizers of the event were notified by Tharoor ...

Title – Chanakya’s New Manifesto to Resolve The Crisis Within India Author – Pavan K. Varma Publisher – Aleph Published – 2013 Genre – Non-Fiction Pages – 248 Price – ₹ 295 (Buy on flipkart for Rs. 204 – aff link) Chanakya is one of the greatest thinker/philosophers to have graced the pious land of India. His famous treatise on administration, ‘Arthashastra’ has been ...

Campus Chat Episode 02: Topic: Interview with Sajid Jamali after Jamia’s win against Mumbai University in the Toyota University Cricket Championship About: Jamia’s Northern Stars beat Mumbai University’s Western Wolves with 5 wickets and won their first match in the University Cricket Championship (UCC) played at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Feb. 23rd. In this edition of Campus Chat, we speak to ...

Jamia’s Northern Stars beat Mumbai University’s Western Wolves with 5 wickets and won their first match in the University Cricket Championship (UCC) played at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Feb. 23rd. The final score was: Mumbai Univ: 172/8 (20.0); Jamia: 176/5 (19.5) Parveen Yadav (Captain Northern Stars) was declared Man of the Match. Next Match: Jamia will play their next match against Madras ...

The Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution organized a lecture by Dipankar Gupta titled “Town and Country: the Changing Face of India Today” at the Yasser Arafat Hall on Thursday, February 21, 2013. [Audio] Dipankar Gupta is a well-known sociologist and author of “Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds,” “The Caged Phoenix: Can India fly?” and several others. As ...