[Following is a statement from All India Students’ Association (AISA)] An Appeal to Save Jamia From: The Bulldozer Of Massive Fee Hike, Administrative Bullying Of Students and Denial of Students Union! Friends, Imagine a place where public places are under the constant surveillance of CCTV cameras; where private security ‘bulls’ patrol the grounds, to prevent public gatherings, pasting of posters, ...
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Court Demands Explanation from Jamia on Denial of Admission to Hamidur Rahman
According to a report in The Hindu titled “Notice to Jamia over denial of admission to student” dated Oct. 13, 2012, the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to Jamia on an appeal against a single bench order upholding the decision of the Vice-Chancellor to deny admission to Hamidur Rahman, a former Jamia student, in the M.A. Persian program. As ...
Read More »Jamia Holds Memorial to the Victims of 2002 Gujarat Genocide
Jamia Millia Islamia and ‘Citizens for Justice and Peace’ are jointly organizing a series of programmes on the 2002 Gujarat genocide titled “Memorial to a Genocide: Gulberg Gujarat 2002-2012” that are being held from October 9 till 13 on campus. The programmes include a Photo Retrospective, Statistics, Missing Person’s Wall, Acknowledgements and Survivor’s Conversations among other things. On Tuesday, Oct. ...
Read More »Parent Teachers Meeting at Delhi University Proposed
According to an article titled “PTMs in DU: Hello, Military Camp!” dated Oct. 2 in Delhi University’s student newspaper, DU Beat, the DU administration has proposed to form a “Parents Coordination Committee” to allegedly act as “mediators” between teachers and their college-going children. Again, according to DU Beat, this implies that if the committee is formed, Parent Teachers Meetings (PTM) will ...
Read More »Lecture by Patrick Heller on “Indian Cities in Comparative Perspective” on Oct. 17
Department of Political Science will be organizing an extension lecture by Professor Patrick Heller, Director, Graduate Programme in Development, Watson Institute for International Affairs & Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University, USA, on the topic of “Indian Cities in Comparative Perspective” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 at 2 pm in the Seminar Room, Department of Political Science. The ...
Read More »Pickwick Fest: Three-day Literary Festival at Dept of English
(Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 12, 2012) The English Literary Association of Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a three-day Literary Festival from 15th to 17th October, 2012 to commemorate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens and the Centenary of Saadat Hassan Manto – called the Pickwick Fest. The festival will provide a forum ...
Read More »Australian High Commissioner, Peter Varghese Speaks at Jamia
Strategic partnerships, educational exchange programmes and better trade and economic relations are the things that Australia is looking forward to, to strengthen its ties with India. These views were expressed by Mr Peter Verghese, the Australian High Commissioner to India, in a talk titled “Australia-India Relations in the Asian Century,” at Dayar-e Mir Taqi Mir on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. ...
Read More »How India Should Deal With Pakistan
The challenge that India faces from Pakistan is real and existential in nature. The history of Indo-Pak relationship has always been that of war, deception and hatred. The discourse on this particular paradigm has always been of great relevance to the strategic and securities studies community in India. The course of events in both geopolitical and geo-economic front calls for ...
Read More »Discussion on 2002 Gujarat Pogrom With Survivors and Teesta Setalvad
With a view to let people have a first-hand account of the 2002 Gujarat riots through a conversation with the survivors of Naroda Patiya and Gulberg societies of Gujarat, the Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) in collaboration with Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) today organised a discussion titled “The Long Road to Justice” in the Mir Taqi Mir Building. ...
Read More »Irfan Bukhari, Vocalist for Firaaq-The Band
By Samreen Mushtaq and Khalid Jaleel It is not unusual at Jamia to know a student who is very good at his studies, or is very good in some sport. Every year, Jamia gets a small set of highly talented students who achieve great heights in the field of academics or athletics during their studies, or soon after they complete ...
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