अप्रैल के शुरुआती हफ्ते में ‘पनामा पेपर्स’ के नाम से जारी हुए दस्तावेज़ों ने इस समय पूरी वैश्विक राजनीति में एक तरह का भूकंप सा ला खड़ा किया है । फ़र्ज़ी कंपनियाँ बनाकर पूरे विश्व के धन-कुबेर किस तरीके से अपनी कमाई को टैक्सों से बचाते हैं, यही इज़हार हुआ है पनामा की एक कंपनी…
Education is Meant to Free the Spirit of Man | Jawaharlal Nehru Convocation address by Jawaharlal Nehru to AMU students on January 24, 1948 I have come back to Aligarh and to this university after a long interval. We have been separated not only by a distance of time but also by a distance of…
A time will come when singing the songs of love will be the poetry of resistance The time is not too far when wearing the cloth of one’s choice will be the symbol of resistance When eating the food of one’s choice will be revolt …..when going to vote, contesting elections, campaigning for or against…all will…
Feminism, as a movement which was started as a crusader for women’s rights and equality seems to be going off the shore. Feminism should not only be restricted to carrying out placards in slut walks and sticking sanitary napkins on walls. Among the deserts of Arab, thousands of years ago daughters were buried. Hundreds of…
A day before, a journalist who happens to be a Muslim, was labeled an ISIS sympathizer on a television debate to which the Aligarh is silent. We see murders and we’re silent. We see fund cuts and we’re silent. I wonder, if our silence is to prove the height of tolerance to the nation. It…
On April 4, the Chief Justice of India, during the hearing of a case quibbled, “Can a university be termed as a minority institution?” This question has become important as the NDA government has also triggered a controversy by questioning the minority status of AMU and Jamia Millia Islamia and contending that no institution can…
Michel Temer, the Vice-President, and member of the bourgeois PMDB, is now making preparations to form a new right-wing government. This marks the end of a long period of relative political stability in Brazil. The economy is in its worst recession since the 1930s. It is in this context that we can understand the recent…
While many have been euphoric that our great nation has moved beyond caste, frequent cases of caste violence prove otherwise. Dalits who were made to bear the brunt of untouchability are placed at the lowest rung of the social ladder and are often victims of the worst kind of atrocities. While formal laws banning untouchability…
