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Why India Needs JNU

Vol. 51, Issue No. 23, 04 Jun, 2016
K L Sharma

A lifelong associate of Jawaharlal Nehru University reflects on what JNU means to higher education, research, and indeed what it means to the people of India.

Naming the Muslim

Vol. 51, Issue No. 13, 26 Mar, 2016
Sayori Ghoshal

The mob attack on a Muslim family and lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq Saifi at Dadri in December last year along with the Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition cases in early February have shifted the rhetoric and discourse of conceiving the Muslim in India. From the category of “religious minority,” which was passionately argued about throughout the periods of the Constituent Assembly debates, the Muslim question today is being increasingly constituted by “names” and food habit. The implications are far from merely rhetorical or symbolic.

Where is this Self-Proclaimed Nationalism Coming From?

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
Kanhaiya Kumar

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar gave a speech in JNU after he was released from judicial custody on being granted a six month interim bail by the Delhi High Court. We reproduce an English translation of sections of his Hindi speech. 

Scourge of the Scoundrels

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
Anand Teltumbde

The February episode at the Jawaharlal Nehru University conforms to a recent pattern. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, ministers belonging to the party and university administration collude to declare dissent as anti-national.

Targeting Institutions of Higher Education

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
Romila Thapar

The ideology central to the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has no space or use for liberal thought and values. Education for such organisations means only what can be called a kind of catechism. This is a memorisation of a narrow set of questions rooted in faith and belief and an equally narrow set of answers that prohibit any doubt or deviation. Therefore, educational centres that allow questioning and discussion are anathema and have to be dismantled.

We are Against Institutional Violence

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Kanhaiya Kumar

This is the near full text of Kanhaiya Kumar's speech on 11 February where addressed a gathering on the JNU campus. The Hindi speech Kumar delivered was translated by JP Yadav of The Telegraph from a recording uploaded on YouTube. 

University and the Nation

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Manash Bhattacharjee

If nationalist sentiments are the only and final prerogative to belong to an academic community, then it must also be reiterated, a university has no business to share these sentiments. The founding figures of JNU knew it and it is upon the entire community of students, teachers and concerned citizens to safeguard the university against such jingoistic versions of nationalism. 

Deconstructing Saffron Nationalism

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016
Vikas Bajpai

The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, the student’s union president in Jawaharlal Nehru University, and subsequent crackdown on all dissent on the campus, is part of a larger design to stifle the voices of anyone going against the policies of the current regime. 

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