On November 18, hundreds of students from Jawaharlal Nehru University marched towards parliament to oppose the draft hostel manual approved by the university’s administration. The manual was approved without the popular consensus of the students and has been slammed as a draconian measure to make education ‘exclusive’ and ‘discriminatory’.
The proposed hike in JNU has spurred protests for the last three weeks. Those opposing the manual argue that a hike would make quality education at JNU unaffo...

On Thursday, while Delhi couldn’t breathe, Republic‘s Arnab Goswami decided to hold a debate on the defacement of Swami Vivekananda’s bust in the JNU campus. He sarcastically said to a panellist, “You praise Afzal Guru, Burhan Wani, celebrate the Maoist attack, you say azaadi for kashmir, you say Bharat tere tukde honge, you want Maoist seminars on your campus and then you want us to fund it, we the taxpayers will fund this as well.”On NDTV’s Left, Right and Centre on Thursday, Vishnu Som discus...

Campus politics has long been an integral feature of Indian universities. From the student protests led by Jayprakash Narayan in Bihar during Emergency to the 2016 protests at Jawaharlal Nehru campus in Delhi, student politics has played a significant role in structuring public discourse. To celebrate the rich history of campus politics in contemporary India, the Centre de Sciences Humaines Wednesday put on an exhibition titled “Memories of Change”.Set up in the Open Palm Court of India Habitat...

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