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Out Of 6,043 Faculty Members In 23 IITs, Why Do Only 170 Belong To SC/ST?
On January 2, 2019, the Union Minister of the Human Research Development appraised the parliament about the exact number of reserved category faculty members in the Indian Institutes of Technology....
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MBBS Students In Bangalore Protested Against Fee Hikes And A Proposed ‘NRI...
In all my lectures on capitalism and neoliberalism, I always had an uneasy chair whenever my thoughts rushed towards the education and the health sector. Out of everything, these two sectors, in my...
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Anger Against One HoD At Jamia Echoes A Larger Culture Of Silence That Has...
The ongoing anti-harassment protests in Jamia Milia Islamia against the HoD Hafeez Ahmad of the Applied Arts in the Fine Arts Department, in my opinion, is only the tip of the iceberg and sets a...
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Commuting An Hour And A Half To College Everyday: A Portrait
[Disclaimer: the views expressed in this piece are purely personal. If you disagree, what are you doing here? Go fight a war or something. The Army needs you.] To all of you snowflakes who don’t know...
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How The Organisers Of The First Dalit Lit. Fest Honoured A Literature Of...
In a first for the capital, Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College organized a Dalit literature fest on February 3 and 4. Organized by the Ambekarwadi Lekhak Sangh in association with the college’s...
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Charges Of Sedition But No FIRs: What Is Going On At Aligarh Muslim University?
It is February all over again. The venue this time, it seems, is Aligarh Muslim University. On Tuesday evening, draconian colonial era sedition charges were slapped on as many as fourteen named and...
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‘Autonomy’ To Higher Education Institutions In India Is A Wolf In Sheep’s...
March 20 2018, a day union minister Prakash Javedkar has chosen to describe as a “historic day” in fact will be remembered as a black day in the history of higher education in India, if written from...
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At Aligarh Muslim University, Not Just Students, But A Liberal Space Was...
Universities are in the news, again for the wrong reasons. It seems February is cursed for us. Three years back it was Jawaharlal Nehru University, and now it is Aligarh Muslim University. Yet again,...
View ArticleFive Tips To Help You Balance Family And Friends During First Year Of College
The first year of college can be overwhelming. Between the school work and creating a new social life, there isn’t often much extra time to do much of anything, let alone spend time with the family....
View ArticleDelhi University Has Asked Students And Teachers Not To Make Too Much Noise...
Whenever they feel that their rights have been violated, the student groups of University of Delhi (DU) and members of Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) amass on the campus of the university...
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From Former AMUSU President: An Open Letter On Why Students Must Keep Up The...
Dear Students, Its been five days, that we have been fighting against this fascist regime and the local district administration after they slapped false and fabricated sedition charges on 14 students...
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13-Point Roster: DU Professors Explain The Mechanism Behind It
The criterion for appointment of professors in universities is being changed again, this time caste playing the factor. The news of the mandatory implementation of the 13-point roster has created a...
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How To Quash Right-Wing Threats On Campus: A Lesson By The Ex-Principal Of HK...
Jignesh Mevani, the MLA for Vadgam was recently called as a chief guest at his alma mater, the HK Arts College in Ahmedabad on Monday, February 11, where his lecture on “The Life And Mission Of...
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At Campuses Like AMU and JNU, Why Is The System Waging War Against Its Own...
It was not long ago when I was reading about the list of attacks on educational institutions as parts of planned political disturbances. It had been quite some time since Aligarh Muslim University...
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The Story Of How Valentine’s Became ‘Violent-Tines’ At Hindu College This Year
Novelist Suzanne Collins in one of her books in the Hunger Games trilogy, wrote a song that went: “Are you, are you coming to the tree? Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be If we met...
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Using Poetry As Purpose, These Students Are Creating Change In Classrooms
The term Jijivisha means the desire to live. This desire can take many forms: the desire to grow as individuals, the desire to hone what one loves doing, the desire to work with a sense of purpose. The...
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Cotton University, Guwahati Resisted The Citizenship Amendment Bill While...
With protests and resistance against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) 2016 growing stronger all across Northeast India, it was only imperative that the students contributed their share too. The...
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Why Did NIT Calicut Cancel LGBTQ Week This Year?
By Anonymous: The LGBTQ Week is a yearly event conducted by the queer community of the National Institute of Technology Calicut and their allies. There are talks, discussions, and events on the theme...
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Besides A Complete Lack Of Infrastructure, These Are 5 More Concerns The EWS...
Weeks after the announcement of the 10% quota for the economically weaker sections (EWS), the procedure for its implementation—that is, if a planned procedure actually exists—has still left...
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Will ‘De-Saffronising’ MCU Bhopal Tell Us How Funds Were Misused? The...
As per reports, the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University Of Journalism And Communication is all set for an overhaul after Congress’ rise to power in Madhya Pradesh. Of late, the university has...
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