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 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/…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing. …
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…