Activism

Jamia organized a student cycle rally from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi, officially named “Save Water, Save Earth”  to promote the environmental message of  water conservation. According to a Jamia press release, a group of 25 students (19 boys and 6 girls), along with a few others from the university, started the rally from Narkanda in [...]

Anger and angst were writ large on the faces of students, especially those from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, during the brief question and answer session following a “Public Meeting on Capital Punishment and the State of Indian Democracy” organized by Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) here at FTK-CIT, JMI on Tuesday, February 19, [...]

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Feb. 13, 2013] A Public Awareness Campaign by the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia was held on 13 February, 2013, from 2.30 – 4.30 P.M, at the Amphitheatre behind the Ansari auditorium, JMI. As a precursor to the global ONE BILLION RISING, a movement [...]

The entire nation is incensed by the news of the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in Delhi on Dec. 16. People have been outraged by it and as result multiple protests have taken place at several places across the city. Jamia has been no exception. The Outreach programme and the Sarojini [...]

After a week-long of murder and mayhem by Israel, it agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday Nov. 21. However, in that week-long of attacks on Gaza, Israel attacked and killed 162 Palestinians, including 42 children, 11 women and 18 elderly people. In all 1,222 have so far been listed as injured, [...]

Jamia Millia Islamia and ‘Citizens for Justice and Peace’ are jointly organizing a series of programmes on the 2002 Gujarat genocide titled “Memorial to a Genocide: Gulberg Gujarat 2002-2012” that are being held from October 9 till 13 on campus. The programmes include a Photo Retrospective, Statistics, Missing Person’s Wall, Acknowledgements and Survivor’s Conversations among [...]

Against the backdrop of crisis in the North East, Jamia Millia Islamia’s Centre for North East Studies, the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, and the Department of Political Science collaborated to organize a Peace Walk on-campus for “Sensitization & Awareness of Human Rights in the North East of India,” on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. [...]