Lifestyle

As the new academic session at Jamia is about to begin, many are busy preparing for their first day at Jamia. And if you’re like me, you’re anxiously trying to think of what you’ll be wearing on the first day of college. First day at college, however, is especially nerve-racking for freshers because suddenly liberated from the grasp of boring ...

Like so many people out there, the pomp of Jamia Millia Islamia attracted me to it and wished to get admission into it. And so I moved to Delhi imitating the exodus of so many others who settle in the Dilwaali Dilli looking for a better job or better education; in my case, it was education of course. Stepping right ...

As a new student at Jamia, just fresh out of school, you’re probably wondering how your college life is going to be. Will it be exciting, or will it be boring? Am I going to have the best few years of my life, or will it be unending misery and drudgery? Let me end the suspense and help you find ...

Saniuddin Khan, a student of M.A Visual Effects and Animation, AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia, has won first prize in the student category for his ad-film titled, “Living Star,” at the MBICEM First Frame 2015 Seventh International Students Film Festival, held on 16th and 17th April, 2015 at Sri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. Eleven films were short-listed and ...

In an effort to raise awareness about rape and sexism, a group of Jamia students, who wish to remain anonymous, are sticking sanitary pads with feminist messages on them, all across Jamia campus. Some of the messages read: “Period blood is not impure, your thoughts are.” “Menstruation is natural, rape is not.” “Streets of Delhi belong to women too.” “Rapists ...

Jan. 18, 2015: An Allama Iqbal hostel resident of Jamia, Mohd. Haroon (2016, M.A. Social Work) told Jamia Journal a really interesting story about himself which we would like to share with our readers. Today, Jan. 18, early in the morning, before sunrise around 4 o’clock, Haroon heard a cat meowing really loudly out in the corridor of his hostel. ...

If the name Faraaz Siddiqui sounds familiar to you, then you’re not wrong because a couple of months ago we had showcased an award-winning short film titled “Humsafar” in which Faraaz Siddiqui (MBA Final Year) was one of the main actors. We profile Faraaz once more because besides his passion for acting, he also harbors a passion for motor-racing. But ...

Jamia student, Avani Kaushal, in the Faculty of Law, JMI won a cash prize of Rs.100,000 for Best Speaker in the Amity International Criminal Law Moot Court Competition organized by the Amity Law School II, Amity University from February 22-24th 2014. The Jamia team comprising: Avani Kaushal, Akanksha Bahuguna, and Sana Wasim were also declared First Runner-ups in the competition, which carried ...

Yusra Ansari, a fifth year Jamia student of architecture, was recently declared second prize winner of the prestigious Landscape Foundation Students Design Competition 2014 titled “Seen-Unseen”  organized by the Landscape Foundation of India. The second place prize also carried with it a cash prize of Rs. 30,000. The competition required students to think of a random physical backdrop which they think has ...

Kunwar Arun Singh Yadav (2016), a B.A. Political Science student of Jamia, recently climbed the Stok Kangri mountain peak which has an elevation of 6,153 meters (20,182 feet). The Stok Kangri peak is considered to be the highest mountain peak in the Stok Range of the Himalayas in the Ladakh region of northwest India. Besides scaling one of the highest ...