The Indian Institutes of Technology Council headed by the Minister of Human Resources Development Smriti Irani, based on a recommendation by its standing committee, has decided to increase the undergraduate fees from Rs. 90,000 to Rs. 2 lakhs per year. This now makes IIT education costlier than some of the private engineering colleges. Although this […]
How Can Cricket Determine Our Nationalism?
HOW CAN CRICKET DETERMINE OUR NATIONALISM? The defeat of India by West Indies in the T-20 World Cup triggered a controversy at National Institute of Technology at Srinagar between Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students. Some Kashmiri students have been alleged to have raised anti-India slogans and burst firecrackers upon India’s defeat. The Kashmiri students allege that […]
Systematically Dismantling the Academic Credibility of Our Institutions
Associate Professor Shreya Bhattacharji is the latest target of the Sangh Parivar. She was suspended from the Central University of Jharkhand by the Vice Chancellor Nand Kumar Yadav for having invited retired Professor M.N. Panini of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University to a CUJ’s event […]
EXTORTION ON BHU CAMPUS IN THE NAME OF HOLI
Date: 28 March, 2016 Press Release EXTORTION ON BHU CAMPUS IN THE NAME OF HOLI The BHU campus is witness to forcible collection of money to celebrate various Hindu religious festivals like Saraswati Puja, Durga Puja, etc. However, this time the manner of extortion indicates how the Hindutva brigade is on rampage taking advantage of […]
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Birth Anniversary Programme
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Birth Anniversary Programme Main Speaker: Satyadev Tripathi, former UP Govt. Minister Chair: Advocate Mohammed Shoaib, Vice President, Socialist Party (India) 27 March, 2016 Sunday 4-5 pm Lohia Mazdoor Bhawan, 41/557 Tufail Ahmed Marg, Narhi, Hazratganj, Lucknow-226001 Contact: 0522 2286423 Hafeez Kidwai, President, Acharya Narendra Dev Yuvjan Sabha, U.P., 9795020932 Sharad Patel, […]
Preporatory Meeting For UP Vidhan Sabha Election
PREPARATORY MEETING FOR UP VIDHAN SABHA ELECTIONS Socialist Party (India) activists and potential candidates for the 2017 UP Assembly elections are invited to attend a meeting to discuss our preparations. As already announced Socialist Party (India) is going to contest the election on the issue of liquor ban with half women candidates. Dates and days: […]
The Idea of Nation
Dear Bhuvnesh, I appreciate your concern for nation but again I would say it is an artificial concept. Just like some people believe in God and have faith in religion you believe in nation. Your faith is as blind as somebody’s is in God. I too am concerned about soldiers dying on border but unlike […]
Why Richa Singh Must Continue to Hold Fort
As the news poured in of Kanhaiya Kumar walking out of prison free and delivering an electrifying speech on Jawaharlal Nehru Univerisity campus in Delhi, another President of a Students’ Union, Richa Singh at Allahabad University, the first woman to hold this office in University’s history, became the target of the Sangh Parivar. After her […]
Most Indians Would Be Considered Anti-National
MOST INDIANS WOULD BE CONSIDERED ANTI-NATIONAL Lately, a number of people have been described as anti-national by the Hindutva lobby. The most shocking is their definition of anybody who worships ‘demons’ from Hindu mythology is also an anti-national. The mythological figures belong to a distant past when the concept of nation state was not there. […]
Sliding Popularity of Right-Wing Politics
Hardly two months back nobody would have thought that PM Narendra Modi’s authority would be questioned by ordinary university students on campuses. The campaign which brought Modi to power in Delhi was so high profile that in the initial period of his prime ministership an atmosphere was created in which, what to talk of common […]
