As Jamia Millia Islamia has started with its proceedings for admissions to various courses for the academic year 2013-2014, the most significant change in the admission process this year has been the scrapping of interviews for several programs. This fact becomes clear from the Admission Prospectus 2013-2014 which lists the dates for all written tests and interviews. But for postgraduate ...

Iymon Majid (class of 2014), a postgraduate student in the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia and a staff writer for Jamia Journal, has been awarded the first Irom Sharmila Scholarship of Rs. 50,000. The official announcement for the same was made at a national seminar on “Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act: Nation’s, People’s and Women’s Security” held at ...

Waking up on the morning of Saturday, 9th February, a nightmare came true. A call from home made my smiling mood turn into one where I couldn’t hold back my tears. Afzal Guru had been hanged. It just didn’t seem right. My mind, my thoughts were a mess. I couldn’t think coherently. I repeatedly kept uttering, ‘how could they do ...

On Friday Feb. 8th, the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, under its Pakistan Studies Programme, organized an interactive session with a delegation of 24 students and faculty from the Forman Christian College (FCC), Lahore, Pakistan. During the course of the interaction, the group, which has been on a tour of India starting 4th February, repeatedly expressed happiness and ...

On Thursday Feb. 7, the Department of Political Science organized a talk by Prof. Paul R. Brass titled, “‘Indira Gandhi Live: Interview and Discussion’ by Prof. Paul R. Brass with Indira Gandhi on 26 March 1978”. The session was chaired by Prof. Muhammed Badrul Alam, Head, Department of Political Science, JMI. An expert on South Asian politics, ethnic politics and ...

As I begin to type this on my mobile phone, I check the time and see that it’s around 6 a.m. on the morning of December 29, 2012. I have been awake all night. Sleep has evaded my eyes for over a week now. And tonight it was worse. Since early in the evening, news was pouring in that the ...

Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, on Friday, November 30, organised the 6th Dr. K. R. Narayanan Memorial lecture on “Democracy in Exile: The Case of Tibet”. The lecture was delivered by Honourable Sikyong (Prime Minister), Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Central Tibetan Administration (Government-in-Exile), Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh in the Edward Said Hall. (Link to Audio) ...

Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, organized a lecture, as a part of its’ B. R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Series, by Professor Adnan Farooqui on the topic “Candidate Nomination Processes in Indian Parties” on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. [Link to Audio] Mr. Farooqui, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political ...

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. ...

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 ...