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Month: January 2018

YUVA Jamia Millia organised Tiranga March commemorating Republic Day

These days every Indian is proud of being a Republic. The same can be traced in the hearts of nation’s progress in schools and universities, wherein various patriotic programmes are being organized celebrating the very national occasion. In this regard, the YUVA chapter of the capital’s Jamia Millia Islamia organised a Tiranga March just a…

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Universal Basic Income: Reimagining Social Security (Part I)

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place. -John Rawls It has been beautifully suggested after deep deliberation that, “People don’t just have needs, rather they have ideas about their needs”, ideas which evolved over considerable period of time with…

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A story of Injustice , A story of exile- Kashmiri Pandit

The cold dark night of 19th January 1990 was probably the worst nightmare ever witnessed by Indian secularism. “Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv – Join us, Die or Flee, Yha Kya Chalega Nizam-e-Mustafa, Azadi ka Matlab Kya, La Illah IL laalh “ were some slogans which were taking round in Kashmir valley. We want “Kashmir to…

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Badlee: Revolutionising the social media into social ‘service’ media

Social media has transformed our lives in various ways. It has made the exchange of information easier and cheaper through various platforms over the internet. But with the advent of time and rapid rise in the user base on social media platforms, we have started witnessing the ill-effects of what began as a revolution on…

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Unelected Parliamentarians

“India’s founding fathers and mothers established in the Constitution both the nations’ ideals and the institutions and processes for achieving them. The ideals were national unity and integrity and a democratic and equitable society. The new society was to be achieved through a social-economic revolution pursued with a democratic spirit using constitutional, democratic institutions.” –…

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The Soldaderas of India: Rani of Jhansi regiment

Rani of Jhansi regiment was one of the most unusual and vibrant female (only) military units that history has ever witnessed to. The contribution and initiative of Subhash Chandra Bose of creating the woman wing in the mid-20th century has great consequential impact upon our nation as India today is the only country in South…

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Remembering SISTER NIVEDITA for her ‘divine self-sacrifice’

“Throughout the world the women are the guardians of humanity’s ethical ideals.” From Sister Nivedita’s time in 1867-1911 to Oprah Winfrey’s speech in the Golden Globes in 2018, has much changed? A new day was and is still on the horizon! Both talk about “And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because…

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Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016 and NRC: Understanding the seemingly local issue from a national perspective

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led NDA government at the centre came up with the Citizenship Amendment Bill in 2016 which proposed to grant citizenship to migrants residing in Assam, who came from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh belongingto the following religious communities- Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Parsis and Budhists. Right from the moment when updates…

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Law Faculty & Lawlessness: An ironic bond that only gets stronger

It has been more than a year for the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi to be witnessing incidents showing utter disregard for law and order within the campus. The faculty was found to be in the news for wrong reasons for the first time in recent years when the Bar Council of India cancelled…

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Youth and Imperatives for Adults

  (This article is by Professor Amita Singh) ‘Youth’ is a fairly sensitive period and often misunderstood as either ‘still a child’ or ‘big enough as an adult’.Nothing explains it better than the quote ‘Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted’.Yet very few adults know how this fragile package is…

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युवा शक्ति के दायित्व के प्रति उदासीनता

स्वामी विवेकानंद, एक ऐसा नाम जिसे भारत और हिंदुत्व को पहली बार विश्व पटल पर स्थापित करने का श्रेय दिया जाता है, जिसने गुलाम भारत की सपेरों और तांत्रिकों वाली छवि को अपने ओजस्वी व्यक्तित्व तले दबा दिया और जो आज तक युवाओं के लिए उत्कृष्ट प्रेरणास्रोत है। केवल 39 वर्ष की युवावस्था में परम…

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Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives

Nehru and Bose: Parallel lives is an unique book for there has rarely been such an extensive comparative analysis between the two personalities who dominated the national scene and politics of congress for almost two decades starting from the 1920s till 1940s. What strikes you the most while reading the book is the author’s lack…

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