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Anger and angst were writ large on the faces of students, especially those from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, during the brief question and answer session following a “Public Meeting on Capital Punishment and the State of Indian Democracy” organized by Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) here at FTK-CIT, JMI on Tuesday, February 19, 2013. The hall was full ...

On Monday, Feb. 18, the Department of Political Science organized a lecture and a book launch on the topic “Nuclear Strategy of India and Pakistan.” Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, fellow, Wadhwani Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C., USA, was invited to speak on the topic (link) and to also formally launch a book edited by Prof. Mohammed Badrul ...

In an effort to understand the nuclear strategy of two nuclear powers of South Asia—India and Pakistan—a lecture and a book launch session was held in the Department of political science on Monday Feb. 18, 2013. “Nuclear issue is an important issue because there are no winners, only losers,” said Head of the department, Professor Muhammad Badrul Alam in his ...

To encourage cricket at the university level, NDTV and the Ministry of HRD have joined hands to  launch the Toyota University Cricket Championship (TUCC) starting 23rd February 2013. According to TUCC website, the tournament has been designed in a Twenty20 format, TUCC will reach more than 200 Universities and 20 lakh students across India. This initiative is backed by the Association ...

The Indian Republic appears to be at several junctures at the same time. The youth is questioning the status quo, and it seems that a potential ‘revolt’ is being bottled up. It is to unravel and take the lid off these bottled up sentiments that Author Pavan K. Varma spoke about in his book “Chanakya’s New Manifesto to Resolve The ...

As part of its “Writers at Jamia” initiative, the Department of English, JMI, welcomed writer Anjum Hasan on Wednesday February 13, 2013 for a reading and interactive session with the students. Anjum Hasan is the author of “Lunatic in my Head,” “Neti, Neti” and “Difficult Pleasures,” which has been shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize 2013. She is also a ...

The recent clash between the Egyptian police and angry protestors in Cairo marked the second anniversary of the Arab Spring in Egypt and the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak. The clash demonstrated that the revolution did not provide the Egyptians with a good alternative. The event of the second anniversary of the revolution seems to be the right occasion ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Feb. 13, 2013] A Public Awareness Campaign by the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia was held on 13 February, 2013, from 2.30 – 4.30 P.M, at the Amphitheatre behind the Ansari auditorium, JMI. As a precursor to the global ONE BILLION RISING, a movement started by Eve Ensler, which ...

In what was clearly a show of protest, a group of few dozen students that mostly comprised students from Kashmir, along with a few others, offered Namaaz-e-Janaza (funeral prayers) for Afzal Guru after Dhuhr (afternoon) prayers in the lawns of Jamia’s Jama Masjid on Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. The general sentiment among the students who took part in the funeral ...

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 ...