The other day I was watching Zac Efron in the movie “17 Again” and I remember thinking, what would I do if I were given a chance to rewrite my fate by going back in time to my days in high school. The chance to be “17 Again.” For some reason, I have a thing for high school movies. I ...

Although my uncle’s house was nothing less than a big magnificent bungalow that sheltered me and my family through all our hard times, I, however, felt a desperate need for a home exclusively of our own. I used to imagine its premises, color, look, design, furnishing, bedrooms, decorations, wall hangings, windows, curtains, and what not. Often a deep sigh would ...

The Department of Political Science, JMI, organized a seminar on “Coalition Politics in India” on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, by Dr. E. Sridharan. Dr. E. Sridharan is a political scientist, and the Academic Director at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study of India. He was a former Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research at New Delhi from ...

It has been one of our aims to showcase student artists on Jamia Journal. And today, keeping in with our goal, we introduce an amateur artist who practices the art of sketching as a hobby. Yasar Abdur Rahman is a graduate student in the department of civil engineering. Jamia Journal spoke to Yasar online. Following is our conversation. Jamia Journal: ...

I love eating. Now just to prove it to you, I’m not going to marry the owner of a fast food joint. But believe me, I really love it. And by “it” I’m referring to food here, not marriage. Right from the time we are born, we have our nutrition charts made directing us to focus on balanced diet. But, ...

Jamia Journal wishes all its readers a Happy and Wonderful Eid!

Though it is considered cliché for women to write about domestic and married life, to paint it with the colors of brutal honesty is how Shobha De stands out.

Shashi Tharoor landed into trouble just because of a message posted on Twitter in which he sarcastically responded to a question that he would travel “cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!” he had to clarify that it meant no disrespect to economy travelers but to airlines for herding people in like cattle and holy cows are ...

Democracy vs. Democracy is a rare event. In the heat of the moment, it could be said that “it happens only in India!” Corruption, in this country, is so understandable that it does not need a definition. But what it so publicly seems to need is an autonomous body punishing it. From the storm of 2G scams and Commonwealth Games ...

Whatever maybe the claims of Delhi Police, or of any authority for that matter, sexual harassment, or as it is euphemistically called “Eve Teasing,” and other crimes against the fairer sex, is nowhere near the low mark on any scale. Let us have a look at the data. According to the Delhi Police website, there have been 489 rapes and ...