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Education, Fascism, Human Rights

Pictures and Videos: #OccupyUGC protest by students continues in police station

Akhil Kumar from Bhalsawa Police Station 1.30pm, 23rd October: We have decided to boycott the food being offered to us in detention at Bhalswa Dairy police station in protest against the brutal lathicharge on the students who went to reoccupy UGC. 7am, 23rd October: Massive crackdown on protesting students! In a cowardly move the Delhi police brought in the CRPF and around 400-500 of them … Continue reading Pictures and Videos: #OccupyUGC protest by students continues in police station

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Civil Rights, Education, Media Watch

They say cut back, we say fight back: #OccupyUGC – Nikita Azad

A huge number of students sitting outside UGC office, protesting against UGC’s decision to scrap away non-NET fellowship were brutally lathicharged and detained today, by a dictatorial force of Delhi Police, and CRPF. Around 15 students have been injured severely, including JNUSU’s president Kanhaiya Kumar. The torture did not stop there itself, but continued inside the bus, disobeying all custodian laws. Women students were beaten … Continue reading They say cut back, we say fight back: #OccupyUGC – Nikita Azad

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Civil Rights, Education, Fascism

Statement of outrage against police crackdown on students at #Occupy UGC: Faculty Feminist Collective, JNU

The Faculty Feminist Collective of JNU stands in solidarity with the students protesting the revocation/review of the UGC non-NET fellowship. We are outraged at the brutal police action against students gathered in a protest demonstration since yesterday, without a single convincing response from the UGC or the MHRD that could allay the anxieties of thousands of students across India that the non-NET fellowship will not … Continue reading Statement of outrage against police crackdown on students at #Occupy UGC: Faculty Feminist Collective, JNU

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Cinema, Education, Freedom of Expression, Opinion

प्रिय FTII Wisdom Tree के साथियों – मयंक सक्सेना

प्रिय FTII Wisdom Tree के साथियों, आपने अपनी हड़ताल खत्म कर दी है…कहा है कि आंदोलन जारी रहेगा…अच्छा किया है, मैं एक हद तक सहमत हूं…लेकिन एक सवाल है…जो मन में कौंध रहा है…सोचा कि सबसे साझा करूं… पिछले लगभग डेढ़ सौ दिनों में देश भर के लेखक-साहित्यकार-फिल्मकार ही नहीं…आम छात्र…क़ॉलेज-विश्वविद्यालय…और लोग… FTII Film Institute Pune के छात्रों के समर्थन में न केवल आए…बल्कि खुलकर … Continue reading प्रिय FTII Wisdom Tree के साथियों – मयंक सक्सेना

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Education, News

What Dhoti wearing pandits know, even NASA scientists don’t: Rajnath Singh

India’s “neighbourhood pandits” were better than NASA and that if the US space agency could predict solar and lunar eclipses a month in advance, the pandits could predict them for the next 100 years by looking at the ‘panchang’ (Hindu calendar). Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday advocated a “comprehensive change in the country’s education system” for students to realise that foreign countries were not … Continue reading What Dhoti wearing pandits know, even NASA scientists don’t: Rajnath Singh

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Civil Rights, Education, Human Rights, Secularism

All Day Long #JU and #SRFTI symbolic hunger strike in solidarity with #FTII

Yesterday twenty students sat on a day long symbolic hunger strike that took place in Kolkata, at Jadavpur University. A senior professor from the Film Studies dept went hungry too, along with the students from many departments of ‪#‎JU‬ and ‪#‎SRFTI‬. Provoking posters were put up on all the walls of the university, and numbing performances by four performers of PI(Performers Independent) left everyone disturbed … Continue reading All Day Long #JU and #SRFTI symbolic hunger strike in solidarity with #FTII

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Education

No logic in Delhi Government’s proposed deletions in the NCERT textbooks – Yogendra Yadav

I had posted some observations about Delhi Government’s proposed deletions in the NCERT textbooks. Many respondents asked me to specify what my objections were. Here it goes, for one set of textbooks that I know something about, namely Social and Political Life for classes VI to VIII and Political Science for classes IX to X [Please read the full disclosure at the end]: At first … Continue reading No logic in Delhi Government’s proposed deletions in the NCERT textbooks – Yogendra Yadav

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Cinema, Civil Rights, Education

To go home, FTII Russian student told to oppose strike

A Russian student at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), who wanted a two-month leave to go home, was asked to sign an undertaking that she was “not on strike” and that she “did not support the strike in any form”, The Indian Express has learnt. The strike was started by students on June 12 against the alleged political appointment of Gajendra Chauhan … Continue reading To go home, FTII Russian student told to oppose strike

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सरकार या ईवेंट मैनेजमेंट? – रवीश कुमार

 सौजन्य – एनडीटीवी इंडिया देश काम से चलता है, लेकिन पिछले कई सालों से सरकारें आंकड़ों से काम चला रही हैं। इन आंकड़ों में एक और आंकड़ा शामिल करना चाहिए, बयानों का आंकड़ा। आंकड़े कि कब, किसने, कहां पर और किस तरह का बयान दिया, आपत्तिजनक बयान कौन से थे, किन बयानों का सबने स्वागत किया, किन बयानों पर विवाद हुआ, कौन से बयान वापस … Continue reading सरकार या ईवेंट मैनेजमेंट? – रवीश कुमार

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