Everything that reminds people of Nehru’s legacy is being smashed.Along with it the ideas of democracy and all-round development he espoused so tenaciously. Now there is no need to put him on a pedestal and burn incense to his memory.He had his faults,but he had been practically the founder of modern Indian democracy as we know it[Read More...]
This guest post is by AYESHA KIDWAI When on January 26, 2016, Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, a professor of electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, assumed office as the new Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, no one really knew who he was. Although subsequent news coverage have unearthed a short-lived and rather unsavoury notoriety in the … Continue reading Exclusion Arithmetics in Higher Education -JNU as the NEP 2020 Pilot: Ayesha Kidwai →
This is the third part of a series of reports on Jawaharlal Nehru University (2016-2021) by the JNU Teachers’ Association. Part I – Delhi High Court Orders . Part II – Security on JNU Campus On Academic Programmes The directive issued by the Ministry of Education on the evening of 22 January announcing an extension … Continue reading JNUTA REPORT ON THE UNIVERSITY 2016-2021 PART III – On Academic Programmes →
This is the second part of a series of reports on Jawaharlal Nehru University (2016-2021) by the JNU Teachers’ Association. Part I – Delhi High Court Orders can be found here. Growing Concerns over Security on JNU Campus This statement, the second in the series brought out by JNUTA, focuses on the unprecedented deterioration of security … Continue reading JNUTA Report on the university 2016-2021 Part II – Security on JNU Campus →
This is the first part of a series of reports on Jawaharlal Nehru University (2016-2021) by the JNU Teachers’ Association. On 26th January 2021, the five-year tenure of Prof. Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar as Vice Chancellor of JNU will formally come to an end. While there are press reports that confirm that the Search Committee constituted for … Continue reading JNUTA Report on the university 2016-2021 Part I – Delhi High Court orders →
When Delhi was chilling on 5th January 2020, JNU was shivering and suffocating with hate speeches and toxified with the never-ending propaganda. One year has passed but still no FIR registered and none investigated against the goon’s violence subjugating the idea of justice, liberty and fraternity. The level of hatred expanded gradually and affected everyone, sparing few ‘nationalists’ who dare[Read More...]
Writing some month ago in a Bengali daily about, among other things, his stint as a security adviser to the vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University from 1999 to 2004 , Debanjan Chakraborty recalled an incident in April 1999 when a large mob was seen scouring the campus looking for the office-bearers of the university students union. From time to time,[Read More...]
Guest Post by PEOPLE UNITED AGAINST REPRESSION ON ANTI CAA PROTESTERS Over the past two months the Delhi Police has arrested Jamia students Safoora Zargar, Meeran Haider, Asif Iqbal Tanha, JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita along with activists Ishrat Jahan, Khalid Saifi, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam and hundreds of other Muslim youth.
Delhi Police’s press conference on the JNU issue yesterday was deeply disappointing though not surprising given the nature of the political pressure on the police and ‘ready to do anything’ variety of officers violating commitment to the constitution of India. JNU faced unprecedented violence on January 5th in the night when masked goons attacked the university students and faculties as[Read More...]
The attack by masked forces, who were freely allowed to enter the JNU campus and injured teachers and students tell a new story of the BJP rule in Delhi. It is likely that they want to dismantle JNU and some other universities in the country. Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) have major issues with universities that teach[Read More...]
