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Almost all the examinations at Jamia were over. Most of the students had gone back to their hometowns for the summer holidays. Only a few students were left at the university who used to come to the library to study. I too had gone home for a few days but returned early because I had to prepare for a competitive ...

She burnt her shabby hut with her dead father’s freezing corpse inside it, slowly embracing flames. Consumed in the fire and turned into ashes, not just the flesh of the dead and the wooden chips, supporting the old dilapidated structure which was her home for 20 years, but even her very existence was burnt inside today. The last 6 years ...

Aug. 15, 2015: Jamia celebrated Independence Day today with traditional gaiety and fervour. The students, teachers and staff of Jamia Millia Islamia had assembled in the school premises in large numbers to witness the hoisting of the national flag. The tiny-tots from the Mushir Fatima Nursery School and students from the Jamia Schools made an inspiring cultural performance. Prof. Shareef Ahmad, ...

Aug. 13, 2015: Adding a new dimension to its educational profile, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), a Central University by an Act of Parliament, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the esteemed Indian Air Force (IAF) to provide vertical and academic mobility to its personnel and officers. The MoU entered into by the two institutions records mutual intent for academic ...

On their return from home for the new academic year, Jamia girls hostel residents were shocked to find a new hostel policy forbidding them from taking any “Late Night Out” from now on. Late Night Out is a rare privilege Jamia girl hostellers are allowed to avail twice a month if they ever wish to stay out a couple of ...

The Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, in collaboration with Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) today [Aug. 10, 2015] organized the First A.M. Khwaja Memorial Lecture in the Edward Said Hall, JMI. The lecture was delivered by Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India. It was presided over by Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, JMI. A.M. Khwaja’s ...

The Riyadh chapter of Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association held a panel discussion on the approach of Jamia’s founders towards the all-round development of Jamiaites, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on July 23, 2015. In the process of the transformation of Jamia from a humble beginning to a leading central university (playing multifaceted roles, and also having the uniqueness of having ...

As the new academic session at Jamia is about to begin, many are busy preparing for their first day at Jamia. And if you’re like me, you’re anxiously trying to think of what you’ll be wearing on the first day of college. First day at college, however, is especially nerve-racking for freshers because suddenly liberated from the grasp of boring ...

To learn, to comprehend, to understand, to sense, interpret, regard, intuit, deduce, discover – The word has as many definitions as the number of people coming across it. As a personal understanding, I relate perceiving best with ‘feeling.’ To perceive is to feel something, to sense it from the innermost trenches of your mind and the deepest craters of your ...

Like so many people out there, the pomp of Jamia Millia Islamia attracted me to it and wished to get admission into it. And so I moved to Delhi imitating the exodus of so many others who settle in the Dilwaali Dilli looking for a better job or better education; in my case, it was education of course. Stepping right ...