About the Picture: This electric car is a common sight on campus. The owner of this car is a faculty member, though I don’t know which department. And what’s interesting about the car, besides the fact it is the only electric car on campus, and that is the owner of the car. I’m not going to tell you what makes him ...

About the Picture: I saw this cute little rascal near the Engineering canteen on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. There was a whole litter of them there, but this one looked really sad about something. I imagine him to be thinking: I did everything she told me to do; I jumped through hoops and barked like a dog for her; then ...

About the Picture: I took this picture in front of the geography department last month (September). What’s interesting about this picture, to me,  is that the children walking across the picture are  presumed to be children of construction workers, who are currently building departments and centers of eduction for Jamia. What is unfortunate, is that their children will never have ...

This is the first in what we hope will be a regular feature on Jamia Journal. From now on, we will publish one interesting picture taken on-campus on a regular basis. Readers are welcome to send their own submissions to be considered for publication. All pictures are required to have a caption, location on campus, and the date the picture ...

Jamia Millia Islamia’s official quarterly newsletter, Jauhar (Vol-2 Issue-4 June August 2012), is now available on Jamia’s website. (Link to Newsletter: http://jmi.ac.in/upload/publication/jauhar_vol2_issue4_june_august2012.pdf) The cover article for this latest edition is titled “A Rich Canvas” that talks about Jamia’s art collection, which Jauhar claims to be “one of the richest art collection” among Indian universities today. The M.F. Hussain Gallery of Art, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

What I narrate in this article is a personal story. Something that happened to me. On a Saturday afternoon, on September 15, 2012, I happened to be walking past the American Center at Connaught Place in Central Delhi with several of my friends. For those who don’t know, the American Center is sort of a cultural and education center run ...