JNU
Illusions, Poetry and Dark Times
The other one, Borges, is the one to whom things happen … It would be an exaggeration to say that our relationship is hostile; I live, I keep on living, so that Borges can weave his literature, and that literature justifies me.
What if the government arrests some opposition leaders on charges of corruption before polls?
As the race to win 2019 elections intensifies, there are rumors that the law enforcement agencies might arrest some of the leaders that are being probed on charges of corruption. How fair then 2019 elections be?
Research takes backseat as UGC slashes Funds and Fellowships
The ever increasing budgetary cuts in higher education and research, and now the termination of fellowship for non-JRF scholars has once again dragged students to the point where confrontation is likely to dominate educational campuses nationally
Shibu Kumar Tripathi Delhi
‘Venezuelan protests scattered, isolated in nature’
JNU professor Abdul Nafey, who was recently in Caracas as part of an international gathering of intellectuals, denies that the ongoing crisis in Venezuela is a humanitarian crisis
Shibu Kumar Tripathi Delhi
Ramjas Row: Universities Under Siege
Want to hide the cumulative failures of three years of your government? Label a liberal university anti-national and watch the magic happen
Shibu Kumar Tripathi Delhi
Najeeb Ahmed: He is still missing
Much like Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, the sudden vanishing of Najeeb Ahmed, the first-year PG student in JNU is peculiar and strange. The missing 27-year-old is now the newest symbol of the student's protest movement that has previously engulfed JNU
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
JNUSU Election: Fiery Debates Set the Stage
In one of the most hotly contested student elections in recent times the focus shifts away from student issues to ideological contestations
Shibu Kumar Tripathi Delhi
Mahishasur’s Melancholy
Counterpoint: The bulldozing of alternative narratives will only reaffirm the new struggles, a new history crafted by the most marginalized
Vinod Kottayil Kalidasan Delhi
The Left: Rising from the Ashes
The Left is no longer left behind. A new radical rainbow coalition of Left assertion is shining like a red star in India. New barricades, alliances and scaffoldings are being enacted. The times they are changing
Amit Sengupta Delhi