In Police Presence, ABVP Hurls Stones, Shuts Seminar On Adivasi Issues
Update, 22/2/17 at 4.06 PM: “Ramjas students who were going to participate (in today’s protests) have been locked inside college for two and a half hours now. People and teachers have been thrashed to...
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‘ABVP Goons Are Not The Type To Pick Up A Pen And Argue Their Thoughts’
Being a final year graduation student changes a lot of things. Everything happens for the last few times. Some students represent the college for various events and competitions for the last time;...
View ArticleBound To Ballot Boxes, How Delhi University Refuses To Modernise Itself
I sat through the counting of the preferential votes for the Academic Council Elections of Delhi University, held this year during February 10-12, 2017. I remember this complex counting process since...
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Battleground Ramjas College: What Happened And Who’s Accountable
On Tuesday (February 21, 2017), the English department of Ramjas College organised an event called ‘Cultures of Protest’. The event was disrupted by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP, a...
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Why We Need To Reclaim Our Universities
Gundagardi se ‘azaadi’ (freedom from hooliganism), ‘ABVP se ‘azaadi’ (freedom from ABVP), ‘Maardhaad se ‘azaadi’ (freedom from violence), ‘FIR darj karo’ (file an FIR), ‘We want justice’, ‘Sanghwad se...
View ArticleABVP Was Always Violent, We Just Have More Cameras Now
Let me share with you an objective fact: the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has used violence as a means of thought-control since time immemorial. In other words, academic institutions in...
View ArticleIn ABVP’s Gunda Raj, There’s No Place To Speak, Question And Think
The Literary Society of Ramjas College, University of Delhi, organized a two-day conference on ‘Cultures of Protest’, featuring three speakers, one of who was Umar Khalid, a PhD student at Jawaharlal...
View ArticleWatch What Happened When Students Stepped Out To Protest At Ramjas College
DU fights back on day two of Cultures of Protest from Piyush Nagpal, Debalin Roy and Ekta Handa on Vimeo. As students stepped out to protest against violence perpetrated by ABVP members at Ramjas...
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‘JNU’s First Queer Group Didn’t Die; It Was Forced To Invisibilise Itself’
By Gourab Ghosh: Jawaharlal Nehru University—a politically vibrant campus (and a strong hub of the Indian Left students’ movement among others), has recently been in the news for its fierce protection...
View ArticleSuppression Of Universities Is A Leaf Out Of British Imperialism
In the early 19th century, British cultural and social policies introduced Western education of science, economics and polity, albeit minimally, to ‘modernize’ the population of India. The Indian...
View Articleइस देश को छात्र “राजनीति”के साथ छात्र”नीति”भी चाहिए।
क्या आपने कभी सोचा है कि जिस देश में सारे मौसम हों, उपजाऊ ज़मीन हो, इतना पुराना इतिहास और संस्कृति हो, वह आर्थिक, सामाजिक और शैक्षणिक क्षेत्र में पीछे क्यों है? क्यों हम आज भी उस दिशा में, उस रफ़्तार से...
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Why Police’s Silent Support To ABVP’s Goonda Raj Is Deeply Disturbing
What could have been an enlightening and constructive seminar, turned bloody in the blink of an eye. Is it wrong to invite a scholar to speak on his PhD topic? Is it wrong to peacefully protest against...
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Why Are Academic Debates Considered Dangerous But Not Goondaism?
Editor’s note: On February 21, members of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) locked down the Ramjas College seminar room and pelted stones in protest against an invitation to JNU students to...
View ArticleThis Incident In Ramjas Shows How ABVP Is Taking Over Campus Spaces
I sat terrorised, as a friend of mine said, “I don’t feel safe in the campus anymore,” over the phone. He went on to narrate the story of hooliganism that took place at Delhi University’s Ramjas...
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Overdose Of Hooliganism And Nationalism: What’s Wrong With Student Politics...
On Tuesday (February 22, 2017), a literary event organised by Delhi’s Ramjas College was stalled after protests by the members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) over extending an invite...
View ArticleHow This NIT Trichy Summit Brought Technology and Innovation Closer To The...
By Kriteesh Patel: This is Pragyan, the annual international techno-management fest of NIT Trichy. Pragyan is completely run by students and is the first student-run organisation in the world to get an...
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राष्ट्रवाद लाइएगा या संस्कृति बचाइएगा?
JNU, हैदराबाद यूनिवर्सिटी, FTII, जाधवपुर आदि शिक्षा के उच्च संस्थानों से गुज़रते हुए उत्पात का बसंत अब इंडियाज़ नंबर वन यूनिवर्सिटी तक पहुंच चुका है। बीते दिनों रामजस कॉलेज में हुई वारदात जहां राष्ट्रीय...
View ArticleRevisiting ABVP’s History Of Vandalism And Protests
As I sit down to write this, I feel traumatised and dismayed by how things unfolded in the campus last week. The members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) vandalised a seminar at Ramjas...
View ArticleHow ABVP’s Violence And The Media’s Propaganda Manipulate Public
In the recent times, campus politics has been boiling over the issue of nationalism, the right to dissent and the right to protest. This ideological war is a clash between that of the right-wing...
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AMU Shows Why JNU’s Student Union Is Not The Only Voice Of Indian Student...
The Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) was scheduled to organise an ‘All India Students’ Leader Meet’ on February 18, 2017 in the Kennedy Auditorium. For this meet, some student activists...
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