Amnesty Responds to Sedition Charges Filed Against Them
According to media reports, the Bengaluru Police have filed a criminal case against Amnesty International India for organizing an event as part of a campaign to seek justice for human…
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…
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…
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
Exposed: Zee TV Entered JNU On ABVP’s Invitation, One Hour Before The Drama Started On 9 Feb
From IndiaResists It was all pre-planned between Zee News and ABVP, as the entry-sheets at JNU gate confirm. Zee entered campus, one hour before. How did they know in…
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…
Student Molested At MSU Baroda During ABVP Clash With Protesters On Campus
Last Saturday, after ABVP stormed the MSU Baroda campus, a group of BJP-backed ABVP leaders along with the right-wing linked teachers' body - Maharaja Sayajirao Vishvavidyalay Shaikshik Sangh (MSVSS) staged a…
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,…
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…
Jadavpur University Protesters Hold Off ABVP Clash, Police Impose Section 144
Almost a thousand students marched on the Jadavpur University campus today, condemning Hindutva crackdown at JNU and the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been sentenced to judicial…
Will JNU Crackdown Prove To Be The Undoing Of Hindutva Fascism?
By Tathagata Bhattacharya The state assault in India to stymie the tradition of dissent, a hallmark of democratic student politics around the world, cannot be seen in isolation from the…
Read Letter: ABVP Leaders Resign In Solidarity With JNU & Rohith Vemula
Dear friends, We, Pradeep, Joint Secretary, ABVP JNU UNIT, Rahul Yadav, President SSS ABVP UNIT and Ankit Hans, Secretary SSS ABVP UNIT resigning from ABVP and disassociating ourselves from any…
Kanhaiya Kumar Beaten Up, Sent To Judicial Custody At Tihar Jail For 14 Days
Arrested JNUSU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was unlawfully arrested on charges of sedition on February 9, was produced in court today. Similar to yesterday's assault by a group…
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…
Video: ABVP Activists Caught Disrupting JNU Rally With “Pakistan Zindabad”
In the wake of the arrest of JNUSU head for sedition and subsequent raids on Leftist students for allegedly shouting pro-Pakistan slogans, a video has emerged on Youtube that shows ABVP activists…
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…
JNU Is Under Siege!
AYESHA KIDWAI, Professor at JNU, on her Facebook page yesterday: For whom Our Constitution and its values are dear, There is no doubt that the Jawaharlal Nehru University is under…
“Never was a man treated as a mind”: Expelled Dalit Student Rohith Vemula Commits Suicide
18th January, 2015: Rohith Vemula, one of the five Dalit students who were expelled by the university last year for allegedly attacking a student activist belonging to Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)…
Is India going to witness its first ever nation-wide ‘protest screening’ this month?
On Aug 1, 2015, the screening of Nakul Singh Sawhney's documentary film "Muzaffarnagar Baqi Hain- Muzaffarnagar Eventually" on the Muzaffarnagar riot that took place before the 2014 elections that rocketed…