No Country for Free Speech : An Independent Overseas Journalist
In an open letter, Mr Shiv Inder Singh, an independent overseas journalist from Punjab, claims that he lost his job owing to his criticism of PM Modi’s government. Dear Sir/…
In Solidarity with Dalit Asmita Yatra
The 15th of August, 2016 will be a historic occasion for the subcontinent for a few significant reasons. Primary amongst these is the culmination in Gujarat’s Una of the eleven-day-long…
WATCH: Anirban’s full speech in JNU’s Freedom Square after bail
Anirban Bhattacharya, JNU student who had been jailed on false charges under the draconian sedition law returned to the JNU campus on 18 March 2016 following the grant of…
WATCH: Umar Khalid’s speech in JNU after bail
Highlights of Umar Khalid’s speech (courtesy: NDTV) I can’t express the emotions that I feel right now. I’m still trying to make sense of what happened. If the government, RSS…
No time to say goodbye
By Amit Sengupta There is a damned war going on in this country. Kashmiri students are getting beaten up in Rajasthan for sharing a meal; in Kolkata, they are being…
From Rohith Vemula to Kanhaiyya Kumar: The need for Bahujan-Left convergence
JNU administration has not brought itself to glory when it expelled all the students charged with ‘sedition’ activities without giving them a chance to explain their position and when the…
Do not go gentle into that good night
Like Beethoven's ‘Ode to Joy’, JNU celebrates the culture of dissent and intellectual freedom Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies poses a dilemma, which is a strategic obsession with hate speech…
Sheldon Pollock: A Strategic Target for the Hindu Right
The struggles at JNU are now reaching other institutions in India– the Lok Sabha, the courts, the media channels. Though, to be fair, the struggles at JNU were first troubles…
The Nationalist Game Plan
While BJP in the last week or so might seem to have gone on back foot vis-a-vis the JNU issue, it should be interesting to analyze what their original game…
Marching for Democracy
Seldom, in our independent history, have we openly debated the constitution of our nationalism. The ongoing students’ movement in India, epitomized by the struggle undertaken by the students and teachers…
WATCH: Kanhaiya Kumar gives brilliant speech in JNU after his release
Historic speech by JNUSU President, Kanhaiya Kumar, delivered at JNU Ad block on 03.03.2016 in the presence of a massive crowd! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7tEHHDLhmc
WATCH: Irom Sharmila extends her solidarity to India’s student movements
Irom Sharmila stands with JNU and UOH students' movements. Power to Irom! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3NWMD9lgMw Protest by the members of the Manipuri Tribal students association against state actions against tribals and land…
JNUSU Call for International Day of Protest in Solidarity with Indian Students
To all friends (in Delhi, India and the World) who have supported the struggle of JNU students and students elsewhere in India in the past few weeks. Thank you for…
The FTII Row and the Flying Cow
Two recent incidents demonstrate the megalomania and xenophobia of the paranoid Indian state. It is the land of Buddha and Gandhi, said our Dear Leader in London, when faced with…
US Activists’ Statement of Solidarity with India: Struggle is Global and Ongoing
We are community, student and legal activists in the United States fighting racialized and Islamaphobic state repression and the continuing assault of neoliberalism in our universities, workplaces and communities. As…
14 Characteristics of Fascism and Why India Should Be Worried
For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. …
‘JNU to bahana hai, Rohith ko dabana hai’: Scenes From The JNU Rally in Delhi
In the front of the procession, the sloganeering was lacklustre. A couple of people began to chant ‘JNU, JNU’, but broke off mid-chant. I made my way to the back,…
Spread the Sedition: Condemn Right-wing Attack on JNU & Silencing of the Kashmir Debate
We strongly condemn RSS-BJP-ABVP’s hooliganism aiming to shut down discussions on Kashmir that brings out issues that the Indian State is not comfortable with, in Kashmir, in Hyderabad Central University,…
Pranab Bardhan on Democracy, Dignity and Development
Well known economist Pranab Bardhan delivered a lecture on “Democracy, Dignity and Development” here at the Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark, Kolkata. The event, titled The Second Amlan Datta…
JNU Ex-Students Are Being Targeted Too : Read This Chilling Account
I am an ex-student of JNU. I am a single woman living alone in a Room-on-the-Roof in Munirka DDA. I am one of those ex-DSU members whose comrades are being…
ABVP Storms Campus, Threatens Students of MSU Baroda
Yesterday, the 17th of February, at noon, students of the Faculty held an open forum, where among other things we discussed the institutional murder of Rohith Vermula at HCU and…
ABVP: Torchbearers of the BJP Agenda from Hyderabad to JNU
In a massive protest meeting on February 13, over 2000 students and teachers had gathered to raise their voice in the wake of police brutalities inside the campus and the arrest…
JNU Crackdown: Watch JNU Student Union’s Vice President Shehla Rashid’s Fiery Speech
Shehla Rashid, JNUSU Vice President, addresses students and teachers gathered in protest against the current BJP Government's unprecedented assault on campus democracy. A translated excerpt: "The issue is not nationalism.…
On Sedition Law & The Patriotism Of The Unpatriotic
by Sukumaran C. V. Former student of JNU ___________________ Under the British rule, Mahatma Gandhi was charged with section 124-A and sent to prison. Section 124-A in Indian Penal Code…
Statements On The JNUSU President’s Arrest
1. By former Deans of JNU: We the undersigned who have taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University for long and have served as Deans of its various Schools at different…
Sedition VS Dissent: A Brief Legal History of Rulings In India
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar's supposedly 'seditious' speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuZiXUh7W4 The arrest of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges is unlawful. Supreme Court of India in Ram…
Protest Against Brahmanical Forces and Institutional Murder of Rohith Vemula at Kolkata Book Fair
A small but spirited protest on Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder by the BJP/Sangh Parivar and Brahmanical forces took place inside the premises of the Kolkata Book Fair today. The protest…
Mumbai Protest Rally Against Institutional Murder of Rohith Vemula
1 February 2016: Students, workers, social and political activists held a protest rally today from Rani Bagh in Byculla towards the Vidhan Sabha under the banner of "Justice for Rohit…
Bajrang Dal Shaves Man’s Hair & Parades Him On Donkey: On Hindutva Goon Culture
In what seems to be yet another brazen display of Sanghi muscle power, Bajrang Dal activists shaved a man’s eyebrows, hair and moustache and paraded him on a donkey in…
Save DU from the Politics of Hate and Communal Poison
On January 8, 2016, a Joint Press Conference of several organizations affiliated to the left was organized at 2 pm to protest the Delhi University’s permission to host a seminar…
CBI Raids CM’s Office, Kejriwal Calls Modi a “Coward”
Today a heat wave pervaded Twitter as Arvind Kejriwal (the Chief Minister of Delhi) tweeted at around 10 am that his office was being raided by CBI. Calling this a…
#OccupyUGC Kolkata: Students Assaulted, Arrested By Police To Curb Dissent
2nd November, Kolkata: As part of the nationwide #OccupyUGC movement, students from different universities, especially JU, CU, VBU, and Presidency University, were protesting outside UGC office at Jadavpur University campus…
Caught Between Kinds of Killing: Choosing To Be A Vegetarian in Modi’s India
The recent incident of a man in Dadri, UP, being lynched and killed on suspicion of eating beef, has sent ripples through the country. For me, it caused a sharp…