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 […]
Beating of Kanhaiya Kumar in Court Brings Back Memories of Babri Demolition
The manner in which Jawaharal Nehru University Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar was roughed up in Patiala House Court premises, while being brought to be produced in the Court room, in the presence of observers from Supreme Court who were there to ensure the security of Kanhaiya and everybody else targeted by the RSS-BJP, has […]
Why Does Afzal Guru Evoke Controversy Every Time?
WHY AFZAL GURU EVOKES A CONTROVERSY EVERYTIME? In the context of recent event at Jawaharlal Nehru University to mark the hanging of Afzal Guru in which JNU Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar has been arrested on charge of sedition, we must also consider why the controversy over Afzal Guru refuses to die? Afzal Guru was […]
Rohith We’re Ashamed, Dronacharyas Are Still Around
Although Rohith Vemula, the dalit student of Hyderabad Central University who commited suicide because of the humiliation he was subjected to, has not held anybody responsible for his suicide, the fact is that he had not received his scholarship for the last several months and was not allowed to use university facilities such as hostels, […]
बाबरी मस्जिद ध्वंस की याद दिला गया न्यायालय परिसर में कन्हैया कुमार के साथ खुले-आम मार-पीट
– संदीप पाण्डे जिस तरह से सर्वोच्च न्यायालय से पर्यवेक्षक के रूप में भेजे गए वरिष्ठ वकीलों के दल की मौजूदगी में पटियाला हाऊस न्यायालय में वहां के वकीलों ने पेशी में लाए जा रहे जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय के छात्र संघ अध्यक्ष कन्हैया कुमार के साथ मार-पीट की, 1992 की बाबरी मस्जिद ध्वंस की घटना […]
यह सिर्फ राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ द्वारा नियंत्रित विश्वविद्यालय में ही सम्भव है कि राजनीति शास्त्र के एक विद्यार्थी की शिकायत पर भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान के एक प्रोफेसर को निकाला जाए!
– संदीप पाण्डे भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय, के बोर्ड आॅफ गवर्नरस् की बैठक में मेरे विजिटिंग फैकल्टी के अनुबंध समाप्त करने के निर्णय के संदर्भ में उठे विवाद की पृष्ठभूमि में विश्वविद्यालय के कुलपति प्रोफेसर गिरीश चन्द्र त्रिपाठी ने भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान के निदेशक प्रोफेसर राजीव संगल के माध्यम से मुझसे यह पुछवाया […]
Only in a RSS Controlled University Can a Political Science Student of BHU File a Complaint Against an IIT Professor and Get Him Removed.
by Sandeep Pandey The Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Prof. G.C. Tripathi, has asked me through the Director, Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Prof. Rajeev Sangal in the background of controversy over premature termination of my visiting faculty contract in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, by a meeting of the Board of Governors of […]
Compassionate Youth from IIT-BHU Help a Suffering Woman in a Neighbourhood Village
By Sandeep Pandey Meena Devi, about 45 years of age but who looks much older, was bed ridden (floor ridden to be precise) when first spotted by a group of students from IIT-BHU in beginning of May, 2015 in Village Chittupur, next to BHU campus in Varanasi. She was partially physically challenged, cannot stand on […]
