Yearly Archives: 2012

Jamia Introduces Interdisciplinary Credit Transfer System

(Following is a Jamia Press release dated Sept 28, 2012)  Jamia Millia Islamia sets yet another milestone in its academic programme. It introduces Credit Transfer System at the Post Graduate level across faculties/departments/centres. Credit Transfer System entails that the students can opt for courses at the postgraduate level cutting across disciplines and faculties, which will bring greater diversity and flexibility ...

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Faculty of Dentistry Commemorates International Day for the Girl Child

(Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 27, 2012)  The Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia celebrated International Day of the Girl Child on September 24, 2012 by organizing various activities throughout the day. On this occasion, a Dental Check-up and Treatment Camp for school girls was conducted and a Girl Child Awareness Booth to educate the patients about ...

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My Trip to Aligarh

Last November in 2011, my classmate Irshad, who is an alumnus of Aligarh University,  told me of his plan to go for the annual day celebrations, also called Sir Syed Day, at Aligarh University. He asked if I wanted to come along, to which  I readily agreed. We decided to go to Aligarh in the morning of November 8th. I ...

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Talk on “Silk Road: The Post-Cold War Context” on Sept 27

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 26, 2012] The University Grants Commission (UGC)-Central Asia Studies Programme, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a Talk on “Silk Road: The Post-Cold War Context” by Dr. Sreemati Ganguli. The Talk shall be chaired by Dr. Meena Singh Roy. Sreemati Ganguli is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Foreign ...

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Book Exhibition at Dr. Zakir Husain Library on Sept 27

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 26, 2012] Dr. Zakir Husain Library, Jamia Millia Islamia is organizing a Book Exhibition (for all subjects). Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia will inaugurate the exhibition on September 27, 2012 at 10 AM. The exhibition will be held in the Reading Hall, Ground Floor, Old Library Building, Dr. Zakir Husain ...

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Lecture on “Agrarian Crisis and the Outliers of the Neoliberal Regime” on Sept 27

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Sept 26, 2012] Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit & Minorities Studies,  Jamia Millia Islamia, under its B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Series, is going to organize a lecture on “Agrarian Crisis and the Outliers of the Neoliberal Regime” by Dr. Vijoo Krishnan, Joint Secretary, All India Kisan Sabha. Dr. Vijo Krishnan has completed his Ph.D. from ...

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My House: A Dumb Witness to the Conflict in Kashmir

Conflict is brutality. It disjoints the happy-living from people and pushes them into a life which has nothing to offer them except the memories, bursting at its seams with trauma, trepidation and loss. It mars all hopes of living. It mashes down the dearest dreams to ashes. Conflict is death. Death of existence; death of conscience; and death of life. ...

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Sadaf Ali Khan: The Man Behind Hind Wani

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 ...

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POETRY: Yours No More

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 ...

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