Tag: JNU
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Jharkhand professor becomes India’s 2nd woman tribal Vice-Chancellor
Ranchi: On Thursday when 180 migrant workers reached Ranchi from Mumbai, their first reaction was that they had never thought of flying on a plane, especially when migrant workers across the country are dying while making an attempt to reach home. Here, they not just reached their native state safely but also got a chance…
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Protests by the students are the strongest in the country: Aishe Ghosh
Kolkata: Amidst the slogans in favour of Hindu- Muslim brotherhood, Student Federation of India (SFI) and JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh on Thursday said that the BJP -RSS is afraid of students protest as everyone is aware that only students can bring revolution across the country. Speaking at an event outside the main gate of Calcutta…
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Brutal attack on JNU shook Park Circus women to start sit-in, says won’t budge till CAA, NRC taken back
Kolkata: The news of women going for an indefinite sit-in demonstration was rife in Kolkata since New Year eve, but where and how wasn’t clear, till a handful of women walked into the Park Circus Maidan on January 7, to announce that they would be sitting in at the spot till the government repeals Citizenship…
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Opinion I ABVP becomes a menace to society
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) hand was clearly visible in the armed goons storming into Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the evening of January 5 and beating students and faculty members, though another little known RSS-affiliate had claimed the credit, like terrorist organisations do. ABVP has over the years become a rowdy and lawless…
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Whether it is blood or colour it is yet to be determined- Dilip Ghosh on Aishe’s bleeding head
Kolkata: The day Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone reached Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) and met injured Aishe Ghosh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Dilip Ghosh, of Bengal chapter, mired controversy by alleging that the blood oozing out of her head is yet to be determined as blood or colour. Ghosh had called a press…
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JNU Alumni protest fees hike in Kolkata, gets support from several Universities
Kolkata: Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have been quite vocal and determined about the fee hike proposed by the University management. Students enrolled with the university have not just taken on the streets of Delhi or formed human chains, demanding for an immediate fee roll back, but have given out a call to all…
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Nobel Prize, A Rich Dividend for “Poor” Economist Abhijit Banerjee
Kolkata: West Bengal can’t keep its calm with another Bengali Economist, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee clinching a Nobel Prize. Neither can the educators and Alumni association of the now Presidency University can hide their enthusiasm with yet another, alumni of their bagging the Nobel. The first being Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Incidentally, both the economists are…
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Sanjay Kumar is a quintessential intellectual and a rebel thinker
ssistant Professor Sanjay Kumar is a quintessential intellectual, a rebel thinker, a conscientious and rigorous teacher with an open mind. He is also an old-fashioned fighter, unable to endure injustice. He truly represents the synthesis of theory and praxis as part of a historical struggle to create a just, equal, pluralist and secular society. He…
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I am traumatized, and living in fear. Anytime, I can be killed: Prof Sanjay Kumar
Delhi/Kolkata: Sanjay Kumar, assistant professor of sociology, at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari (Bihar) who was dragged from his residence and nearly torched by a group of men for having spoken against the Vice-Chancellor of the university, speaks to eNewsroom about his trauma and agony, just after his university swung back to normalcy. Following are…