Emotionally Speaking

Gender Sensitization Against Sexual Harassment in Campuses: Role of Student Community

This is an essay on the issue of sexual harassment in university Campuses and the role of the student community in its prevention. This essay was submitted as an entry to the GSCASH [Gender Sensitisation Commmittee Against Sexual Harassment, JNU] Essay writing and poster making competition on the issue [see details] and won the first [...]

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Prof. Matuk Nath Chaudhary and Julie in JNU campus: A multimedia report

The uninitiated may read about “love guru” Professor Matuk Nath and Julie, arguably India’s most controversial couple, here and here. Yesterday evening [10 pm to almost midnight], the duo [both one-time JNU students] addressed the JNU students at Sutlej hostel of the JNU campus and concluded it with a Q and A session. This is [...]

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Thieving man caught in JNU hostel, beaten by students: A multimedia report

At about 11 AM today [25 September 2009], a man was caught in my hostel [Sabarmati, JNU] who claimed to know people in the hostel and tried to enter students’ rooms with the intention of stealing.

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Iftar Party in JNU campus: A Photo Essay

The multicultural, plural JNU has many nice aspects that are not very common in other universities or educational institutions. One of these is the Iftar parties [also called the "grand Iftar party"] held in various hostels of JNU campus. Before the holy month of Ramadan starts, a committee of Muslim students is formed in every [...]

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“Sabarmati Hospital” in JNU thanks to ‘Tehelka’!

I was a subscriber of the famed Tehelka magazine for a year. The subscription ended in late October 2007 (though they still send me the mag free of cost!). They got my address wrong and they have proved to be incorrigible! I sent them many reminders but in vain! Sabarmati is a hostel in JNU [...]

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साबरमती के बहुत ही सीनियर गार्ड राणा जी की विदाई पर एक नज़्म : [Sabarmati Hostel,JNU]

The following was a poem by my friend and senior Mr. Wasi Ul Haque on the Group 4 security guard loved by all in Sabarmati. I am publishing here on my blog. It was written about a month ago by him on the occasion of his retirement from service. हर इक दिन कुछ घड़ी, कुछ [...]

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