On Wednesday, 30th January, 2013, the Faculty of Engineering and Technology hosted the 10th Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture, 2013. The memorial lecture was delivered by Prof. Tariq Aziz, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai on the theme of “Quest for the Genetic Code of the Universe – A legacy of Salam”. The Abdus Salam Memorial Lecture — conducted in memory ...

Campus Chat – Episode 01 Topic: Justice Verma committee report on amendments to criminal law [Link to report] Guests: Manzar Imam, MPhil International Studies; Samreen Mushtaq, MA Political Science; and R. Nithya, MA Political Science Summary: Justice Verma Committee comprising Retired Justice J.S. Verma, Retired Justice Leila Seth and Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium, was constituted on December 23, 2012, to ...

Dear Jamia Journal Readers, I am excited to announce that Jamia Journal is gearing up  to launch a Podcast, an audio only talk show titled “Campus Chat,” in the next few days. We at Jamia Journal have for long felt the need for a talk show through which we could talk to students on campus and get to know what ...

It is rather unfortunate that the title of this piece may serve to remind readers of a certain series of novels and films centred on vampires and werewolves and their very intimate escapades. But wining the heart of an obdurately poker-faced woman was never easy now, was it? I am at the tail end of my academic programme here at ...

The Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize an Extension Lecture on “The Rise and Fall of the Indian New Wave Cinema” by Professor Rashmi Doraiswamy. Professor Doraiswamy teaches at the MMAJ-Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. Her writings on literature and cinema have been published in prestigious Indian and foreign publications. She was the recipient ...

Every year most of us come to know about the Jaipur Literature Festival when a controversy arises. For instance, last year the Salman Rushdie issue was all over the news. This time, Ashish Nandy’s controversial comments on OBCs, SCs and STs  informed many of us that again a literature festival is going on in Jaipur. People are out on the ...

Our professors — some we love and some we hate, while a few we love to hate. The ones we like, we pay close attention to. We know how many times they say ‘um’, ‘okay’ and ‘right’ in their conversations. We try to speak like them. We google them and search for their facebook profiles. While the ones we hate, ...

The book titled “Introduction to Wavelets with Applications” authored by  Prof. Khalil Ahmad, Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia shall be released by Prof. H.P. Dikshit, an eminent Mathematician and Former Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in a Book Release Function at Jamia. Prof. H.P. Dikshit shall be the Chief Guest of the function and ...

The Gulf Studies Programme, India Arab Cultural Centre,  Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize a three-day Gulf Studies Seminar from 29-31 January, 2013. The seminar is designed to address some of the key issues which are very relevant to a nuanced understanding of the region. With the hope of impelling a more diverse understanding of the Gulf, its history, ...

Podcast Jamia has earned a unique place in academics and research not only because of regular in-class exercises but activities such as conferences, seminars, lectures, panel discussions, cultural programs etc. Each year, we come across several of these, but barring rare instances of appropriate media coverage, only we are the ones who know about it; only we are lucky to ...