Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Armaan Verma Producer: Gauri Khan Director: Anubhav Sinha Rating: **** (4/5) Ra.One is not your typical bollywood film or for that matter a typical SRK film. There’s no gigantic families roaming about with lavish Karan Malhotra dresses. No wedding songs. No SRK’s trademark sobbing-with-arched-eyebrows. And no one-costume-per-location songs. It’s a hell lot different. ...

Why it took you so long, to say the three words, my heart kept on longing, not less than my ears, to hear those magical words, I would have ended my breath, and would have cried from the heaven above for that drop of tear in your eye, Please let me know why, it took you so long to say ...

[Note: Following is an official Jamia press release.] Jamia Millia Islamia has begun a new academic initiative to give fillip to research on campus. The university has launched an ‘Interdisciplinary Discussion Group’ which will begin its activities starting this Monday i.e. October 24, 2011. The ‘Interdisciplinary Discussion Group’ is conceived with the idea of bringing faculty and students’ research on ...

[Note: The following letter was initially sent to the Vice Chancellor on October, 10, 2011] To, Vice Chancellor Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi-25. Sub: Allowing Students Union in Jamia Millia Islamia. Sir, There are serious debates about Islam’s compatibility with democracy, and Muslim countries’ bad record on democracy has given the West an excuse to create an anti-Islam propaganda which ...

When I came to Delhi earlier this year to join the Masters program in Political Science in Jamia Millia, things felt different. This place didn’t seem like Kashmir, not even in the least. It felt like I had stepped into a new world altogether. After leaving from the airport, my friend asked me: so what’s the first change you observe? ...

Human Rights Forum, Department of Political Science organized a lecture on the topic “Conflicts and Rights in South Asia” by Meenakshi Ganguly on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. Ms. Ganguly is the South Asia Director for the eminent human rights organization, Human Rights Watch. Speaking about Human Rights Watch, Ms. Ganguly said, “Human Rights Watch operates in about 90 countries. It ...

A discussion on the issues concerning the Palestinian territory was held at the Dyar-e-Mir Taqi Mir on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. The discussion was part of a two day event titled “Revisiting Palestine” organized by the Outreach Programme, Jamia Millia Islamia, dealing with the appalling conditions in the occupied historical land of Palestine. The event was packed with films screening, ...

[The following is an advertisement. Content herein has been provided by TEDx JMI] Students of Jamia Millia Islamia are proud to announce that a student organized TEDx event is scheduled to be held at the Ansari Auditorium on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Speakers for the TEDx JMI are: Sonal Kapoor, Usha Albuquerque, Sonal Mansingh, Sagarika Ghose, Nandita Das, Sameer Kaul, ...

[The following three poems are in the Haiku style of poetry which is a Japanese form of micro-poetry.] 1. Wit’s chemistry When wit deceives my ego’s eyes, reality and dream converge into surreal moments of fluid truth. 2. Random Funk Moody feet land on melancholy quicksand sink. The mind deeper into the blackest of black, the septic gut of depression. ...

This year, Jamia has bestowed upon me the the honor and privilege to represent India at the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Academic Forum being held at Durban, South Africa, on October 14-15, 2011. About IBSA The India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Trilateral Forum was set up in 2003 through the signing of the Brasilia Declaration by the Foreign Ministers of the ...