As of this week, Jawaharlal Nehru University has declared the admission seats for the upcoming academic year. There has been a massive cut of seats and my own center (English studies) does not have any vacancies in the coming year.
Since 2016, Kanhaiya Kumar has become the face of #StandWithJNU movement after he was arrested on the charges of sedition and committing ‘anti-nationalist’ activities. A student activist hailing from the Begusarai district in Bihar, the former President of Jawaharlal Nehru
Rana Ayyub calls herself an independent journalist. She is the author of the non-fiction work ‘Gujarat Files’. Previously, she had been with Tehelka and her investigative journalism has sent people from the upper echelons of bureaucracy behind bars. ‘Gujarat Files’
Hundreds of civilians reportedly gathered at the encounter site on March 4 in Shopian’s Chillipora Heff village. The civilians were seen chanting pro-freedom slogans and simultaneously hurling stones at the security forces in a bid to break the cordon around
“Genocide begins with the killing of one man-not for what he has done, but because of who he is.” ~Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General In a crowded stinky slum in Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj where sewage flows through and
Our friend Parvez Kabir, a promising art historian who unfortunately left this world at a very young age, was very much fascinated with John Berger in the beginning of his career, but later he pointed out some ambiguities in Berger’s
Ants The ants on my wall Form a long procession from opposite sides, Meeting and greeting each other, Maybe a warm hug, maybe a kind word, Then cross each others’ path And are on their way. My grandmother, if
Vijay Prashad’s No Free Left – The Futures of Indian Communism is a history of the Indian Left movement, a speculative self-critique and a hope for a future where the Left’s vibrant socio-economic discourse remains key to bringing a real
If culture is a way of life, as Raymond Williams wrote, then the image of realism and fantasy is all about the Ways of Seeing, said John Berger. Seeing is both believing, not believing, creating a false construct, distorting the
In 2010, Verso published a new edition of John Berger’s 1975 book A Seventh Man. Here’s the first sentence of Berger’s introduction to the re-issue: “It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.”