Guest post by JAMAL KIDWAI Agha Sahab ( Agha Ashraf Ali), passed away at the age of 94 on the 7th of August, 2020. I was lucky to know Agha Sahab closely because of his intimate connection with Jamia Millia Islamia and our long standing family friendship. He would come down to Delhi in the … Continue reading Agha Ashraf Ali – The Flamboyant Kashmiri Story-teller: Jamal Kidwai →
Statements of support for the students’ struggle against the CAA and NRC continue to pour in. We will try and keep publishing as many as we can. In this post is a statement from the University of British Columbia, Canada. We, the students, faculty, alumni and scholars of the University of British Columbia, and the … Continue reading Support for Struggling Students from University of British Columbia →
The following is a statement issued by faculty members of South Asian University on the recent police excesses against peacefully protesting students and other citizens. We, the undersigned teachers of the South Asian University, New Delhi are deeply disturbed by the developments at the Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University in the last few days.
Ghalib has fascinated generations of people and they have tried to understand/ interpret his poetry in their own way. For any such individual it is really difficult to recollect when and how Ghalib entered her/ his life and ensconced himself comfortably in one’s heart. This wanderer still faintly remembers how many of Ghalib’s shers were … Continue reading ‘Why Ghalib appears so contemporary even today ?’ : Interview with Hasan Abdullah
Everyone else’s father is in prison in Istanbul, they want to hang everyone else’s son in the middle of the road, in broad daylight People there are willing to risk the gallows so that everyone else’s son won’t be hanged so that everyone else’s father won’t die and bring home a loaf of bread and … Continue reading Erdogan Gets A Degree from Jamia Millia Islamia and Everyone Else’s Father is in Prison in Istanbul
