Students in India express solidarity with Cuba, denounce US imperialist blockade
The solidarity meeting was organized on the occasion of the 1917 October revolution, with speakers noting that Cuba is carrying forward its values in the present day
Ante la censura, los estudiantes indios organizan proyecciones del documental de la BBC sobre el primer ministro Modi
Un reciente documental de la BBC sobre el primer ministro indio Narendra Modi, censurado por el gobierno, está siendo proyectado por organizaciones de estudiantes en varias partes del país.
“Not an inch back”: JNU students refuse to bow down to right wing violence
Peoples Dispatch takes a look at how the incident unfolded on Sunday evening.
Right-wing goons attack students, faculty at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University
Masked goons, allegedly members of the right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, beat up students of left-wing organizations and vandalized hostels on Sunday. The police refused to take any action
Why India needs an absolutely free public education system
In order to make all public institutions of higher learning and research absolutely free, the government has to pay hardly 1% of GDP (i.e. less than Rs 2 lakh crore or USD 30.76 billion)
What does Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel imply?
Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, won the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on finding new ways to tackle poverty.
JNUSU elections: The battle for a progressive campus
The yearly student union elections at Jawaharlal Nehru University are a celebration of true democracy
“The walls are the publishers of the poor”: JNU fights back
In the latest attack against progressive campus politics in the New Delhi based Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the university administration’s forceful removed wall graffiti, a significant part of JNU’s political, academic and pedagogic discourse.
Communist students’ alliance clinches victory at India’s premier university
The much celebrated students’ union elections witnessed a series of violent attacks by ABVP, the country’s largest right wing students’ group, including attempts to disrupt counting of votes
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