Activism

Against the backdrop of crisis in the North East, Jamia Millia Islamia’s Centre for North East Studies, the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, and the Department of Political Science collaborated to organize a Peace Walk on-campus for “Sensitization & Awareness of Human Rights in the North East of India,” on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. The peace walk marked the ...

(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 ...

On a day before the fourth anniversary of the 2008 Batla House “encounter,” Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) conducted a program at the FTK-CIT hall at Jamia to formally release a dossier detailing persecution of Muslims by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell in a report titled, “Framed, Damned, Acquitted: Dossiers of a ‘very’ special cell” on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Speakers ...

After four years of fighting battles with the establishment, students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will finally be electing it’s students’ union on Thursday, March 1, 2012.   In 2008, the Supreme Court put a hold on students’ union elections, citing violations of the Lyngdoh committee’s recommendations on students’ union elections in educational institutions. But on December 8, last ...

The All India Students Association (AISA), Jamia Unit, held a rally in Batla House, Jamia Nagar, on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002.   People participating in the rally chanted slogans demanding justice for the victims of Gujarat violence and decried the government’s failure in holding the culprits responsible. In an ...

[Editor’s Note: Following is a press release by the Indian Youth for Palestine (IYP).] The Indian Youth for Palestine (IYP), in collaboration with the  Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, observed Palestine Solidarity Week  on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, at the Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir Building, JMI.   Students from the Centre for West Asian Studies, Center for Conflict ...

Hamidur Rahman, a B.A. final year student in the department of political science, has decided to withdraw his legal petition against Jamia from the Delhi High Court.   In an interview with Jamia Journal, Rahman said that he had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012, demanding a directive from the court for the ...

In a press release from Afroz Alam Sahil, who is an RTI activist, a journalist, the convener for the Forum for Students Democracy (FSD) and an MPhil student who had quit Jamia late last year in protest over the invitation of  Lt. Governor of Delhi,Tejender Khanna, as the chief guest for a convocation ceremony at Jamia — claims that a ...

[Following is a press release by the Forum for Student Democracy.] Jamia Millia Islamia today organized a session on ‘Democracy, dissent and movement for change’. Eminent social activist Aruna Roy, Nikhil Day, editor of Open Magazine Manu Joseph and JMI vice chancellor Najeeb Jung spoke all good words about democracy and Right to information. Ironically the programme was organized in ...

In a bizarre turn of events in Afroz Alam Sahil’s fight for student democracy at Jamia — Jamia’s Public Information Officer (PIO), Prof. Mini S. Thomas, has denied a formal request for information by Sahil, filed under the Right to Information Act, 2005. In response to Sahil’s application, Jamia’s PIO, Prof. Thomas wrote in a letter (Link to a copy ...