When Jamia Journal started publishing in 2010, we did not think it would one day inspire a Jamia student to establish his own newspaper. But that is what happened in October 2011. On being closely associated with Jamia Journal for about a year, Sadaf Ali Khan, a 2012 graduate of MA Political Science from Jamia and a classmate of the ...

What if things didn’t fall in their right place? What if every reason for love I have fails What if future promises nothing? My hand holds truths and lies Believing one will deny other Choosing lie is how I choose you Picking truth will send you away. Living the battle of emotions, Confused, my heart questions Will you pick me ...

Reservation, or affirmative action, is a topic which invariably generates controversy, whether one supports it or opposes it. I would like to give my opinion on this issue by posing a question: Have we failed the Constitution, or has the Constitution failed us? For me it is clearly the former. The intent of the constitution makers behind the policy of ...

Star Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana D’Cruz Directed By: Anurag Basu Produced By: Ronnie Scewvala and Siddharth Roy Kapoor Written By: Anurag Basu Reviewer Rating: ****/5 Do not go to watch Anurag Basu’s “Barfi” because it has  four stars or because you are in the mood for something romantic. You will narrow down the element of surprise if you ...

People can neither protest every time  the price of petrol increases nor can they buy  petrol at any given  price. There seems to be a gap in the system that many countries, including ours, is following. If a free market economy is in place, people cannot and should not agitate on a rise in prices because supply and demand forces ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 21, 2012] Earlier in the month of August there were reports in some sections of the media that the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) Registration of Jamia Millia Islamia along with many other universities had been cancelled. In this regard, Jamia Millia Islamia had represented to the Ministry of Home Affairs that ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 21] To celebrate ‘International Day of the Girl Child’, the Faculty of Dentistry at Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a series of programmes centred around “Girls are Pearls”. On this occasion, the following events will take place: Poster/Collage making competition by students of the Faculty of Dentistry. A Talk by ...

[The following short story by Zakaria Tamer, a Syrian Arabic writer, has been translated into English by Mahmoud al-Zayed, a Syrian postgraduate student in the department of English .] The forests travelled far away from the tiger imprisoned in his cage that he could not forget. The tiger stared angrily at few men surrounding his cage. They were looking at ...

In this week’s cover story titled “Campus Jottings” dated Sept. 17, 2012, for Edex, the education supplement of The New Indian Express,  Jamia Journal is one among the six notable college newspapers it profiles. The five other college newspapers listed in the article are: DU Beat, Delhi University; The Fourth Estate, IIT Madras; The Scholar’s Avenue, IIT, Kharagpur; Monday Morning, NIT, Rourkela; and VJ News, ...

Admissions have been done with, classes have gathered steam, but does campus life feel a bit boring? Fret not for below is a list of some of the most exciting and happening places on Jamia campus that you can rush to for a break, to make new friends, or simply to try out some of the delicious food they have ...