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March 2, 2013Hindol Sengupta2 Comments

If there is one thing that going to the Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia taught me, it was to take myself seriously. There was no choice. Everybody else did. To reach MCRC, one had to enter one of Delhi’s great Muslim ghettos. Yes, of course it is politically incorrect to call it [...]

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December 25, 2011Zafar BariNo Comments

Time flies. Down the memory lane, it seems only yesterday that I and my friends used to serenade through the charming Jamia campus. The bright faces that lit the soulful campus then, continue to glow in my mind even today. Although I have spent only two meaningful years at Jamia, they were worth a decade [...]

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December 22, 2011Zafar BariOne Comment

In recent months a passionate debate has been raging about the worthiness or unworthiness of student involvement in politics in Jamia and other universities. More specifically, people have either aligned themselves in favor of or against the reinstatement of the Students Union in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). I am in favor of the reinstatement of [...]

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