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Separated Siblings

Partition was probably the saddest thing that has ever happened on this pure land. While some claim that the Partition should have never happened, some see it as a successful culmination of a national movement for the achievement of Pakistan. However, it was uniquely tragic, no matter from which side of the border one looked at it. It divided a ...

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Faculty of Education Conducts Inter-House ‘Wall Magazine’ Competition

Institute of Advanced Studies & Education (IASE), Faculty of Education organised an inter-house “Wall Magazine” competition at the Faculty of Education, on Thursday, 13th March 2014. All the students of B.Ed. and ETE are divided into eight houses that are named after social and educational figures such as Zakir, Sayyadain, Gandhi, Azad, Nehru, Ajmal, Ansari and Mujeeb house, in which ...

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Seminar on Secularism to Mark the Legacy of Asghar Ali Engineer

With a view to reflect upon the legacy of Asghar Ali Engineer, Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a one-day seminar on ‘Secularism, Gender Rights and Ethnic Violence with a Focus on Muzaffarnagar Riots’ on Wednesday, 12th March, in the conference hall of FTK-Centre for Information Technology of the varsity. Dr. Azra ...

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Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi Speaks on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Place in Indian Political Thought

The Subject Association of the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a lecture on the topic: “The Place of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Modern Indian Political Thought” by Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi in the seminar room of the department on Thursday, March 6, 2014. [Link to Lecture Audio.]  Dr. Vajpeyi is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for ...

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Arundhati Roy Questions Gandhi’s Status as the ‘Mahatma’ in a Lecture at Jamia

As part of its Walter Sisulu Memorial Lecture series, the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, organised on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 a lecture on the topic “The Doctor and The Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate” by noted writer and political commentator, Arundhati Roy. The program took place in the conference hall of FTK- Centre for ...

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The Question of Hindu-Muslim Unity in India

For more than 1000 years, Hindus and Muslims have inhabited this ancient land in somewhat perfect harmony. Their dwellings occupied a common landscape in primordial villages. Their children played and learned together. A chunk of stories are told about the comity of these two, tales of their acceptance of each other abound,  of donation of land to wealthy merchants from ...

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3-Day Inter-University Cultural Festival “MiRAAS 2014” Inaugurated

[Following is an official Jamia press release dated Feb. 25, 2014] The three-day Inter-University Cultural Festival “MIRAAS 2014” was formally inaugurated by Prof. S.M. Sajid, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia on February 24, 2014. Mrs. Shanta Sarabjeet Singh was the Chief Guest of the Inaugural Function of “MiRAAS 2014” The event began with a recitation from the Holy Quran by Nasir ...

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Campus Companion: Jamia’s Latest Independent Student Magazine

Keeping with the literary culture of Jamia, combined with an ever increasing entrepreneurial spirit among the students, a group of Jamia students from the humanities faculty have come together to publish a trilingual fortnightly literary magazine called, Campus Companion. Among others, Campus Companion is principally the combined effort of its three editors: Ghulam Sarwar (2015), B.A. English; Nisar Ahmed (2015), ...

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Media Co-ordinator Prof. Simi Malhotra Leaves for the Lt. Governor’s Office

According to an email from Jamia Millia Islamia Media Co-ordinator, Prof. Simi Malhotra, the Lt. Governor of Delhi and former vice-chancellor of JMI, Najeeb Jung, has asked Prof. Malhotra to work for him as his “Advisor, Academics, Media and Culture on deputation.” As a result, Prof. Malhotra has relinquished her position at Jamia with immediate effect. In her place, Dr. ...

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