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October 24, 2016
Agitating JNU students today formed a human chain from the administrative block to the Vice-Chancellor’s residence to protest the university administration’s “inaction” in tracing a missing student of the varsity.
A student of School of Biotechnology, Najeeb Ahmed, allegedly went missing on last Saturday following a brawl on the campus allegedly with members of ABVP...
October 24, 2016
Ever since the present Modi government came to power, there appears to have been a clear set of orders issued from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters to its student organization, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), to go on the rampage in university campuses all over India. From getting specific parts of syllabuses changed under threat of violence, disrupting events by...
October 22, 2016
On 20th October a demonstration was held at Arts Faculty in north campus of Delhi University. Attended by more than a hundred students from universities all across Delhi and outside, predominantly women, it was a protest against the members of the political outfit ABVP for their alleged harassment of the students on 23rd September night, when the group had organized a Night March. On the...
October 22, 2016
Following is the text of a letter to the Vice Chancellor, Central University of Haryana, sent by some academics protesting the attacks on Dr Snehsata Manav and Dr Manoj Kumar regarding the students’ production of the play ‘Draupadi’:
To the Vice Chancellor,
Central University of Haryana
Dear Vice Chancellor:
We write in support of Dr. Snehsata...
October 22, 2016
Written by: Rukmini Sen
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad [ABVP] and Bharatiya Janta Party [BJP] should remember what West Bengal did to Congress, not too long ago.
Congress Chief Minister Sidharth Shankar Ray over saw killings of thousands of young men and women in the seventies. Congress claimed to have killed ‘anti-national’ Naxals. People in Bengal,...
October 21, 2016
The recommendations made by an RSS affiliate for gradual removal of English as a medium of instruction has elicited a strong response from Dalit scholars and activists across the country. Dubbing the move as ‘anti-development’, it is alleged that the recommendation has been made with an intention to hamper the progress of the Dalits.
An Indian Express report today revealed a...
October 21, 2016
The JNU student Najeeb Ahmed continues to be untraceable days after he went missing under mysterious circumstances. Najeeb’s friends alleged that he had disappeared soon after his altercation with some ABVP students.
Najeeb’s mother on Friday made a desperate plea saying that she wanted her son back as she alleged that the administration had been “insensitive”...
October 20, 2016
मैं 16 साल का छात्र हूं और बिहार के मुजफ्फरपुर में एक सरकारी स्कूल में पढ़ता हूं.
पिछले कुछ दिन से हर कोई यह जानना चाहता है कि मुझे स्कूल में उन लड़कों ने इतनी बुरी तरह से क्यों पीटा. मैं काफी समय तक चुप रहा.
कभी पुलिसवालों को, कभी स्कूल के साथियों को तो कभी मीडिया को बार-बार अपने पिटने की कहानी बताकर अब मैं निराश हो गया हूं.. थक गया हूं. इन सभी को जब से मेरे पिटने का वीडियो सोशल...
October 19, 2016
Do recent mass protests by Paraguayan students represent the beginning of a political awakening?
Image: La Chispa
University students are making history in Paraguay in what is being dubbed La Primavera Estudiantil, or Student Spring. Over the last weeks, students and their allies mobilized one of the largest protest movements in the country’s history, demanding democratic...
October 18, 2016
Amidst a virtual media blackout at the happenings on the JNU campus, an ugly incident involving an undergraduate Muslim student of the prestigious central university points to grave allegations of communal profiling and targeting, with the administration playing silent spectator
Around 500 students assembled at Ganga Dhaba last night in response to the call by the Jawaharlal Nehru Students...