For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Umar Nizar Furthermore, it is a commonplace that mistakes or errors are part of the learning process and thus essential to creativity: as Jung remarked, “anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead’, or as Hélène Cixous puts it: ‘our mistakes are our leaps in the night. Error is not lie; it …
Vaishali Khandekar Recently, a question raised by a student at JNU in a talk by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has raised a debate over academic spaces and social media. The talk organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University was about Du Bois, an eminent African activist. A question raised by Kumar, an MA sociology student belonging to a …
Anshul Kumar …It was about: when the subaltern speaks there is not enough infrastructure for people to recognize it as resistant speech. That’s what it means. – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (In Conversation: Speaking to Spivak, February 05, 2011 06:50 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 10:49 pm IST ) Ever since I have uploaded the …
Yogendra Kumar During the JNUSU elections, I received a pamphlet being circulated titled Dire Need of an Independent Students’ Organization! Disha is the answer to it!!… I know one should not give recognition to an organization named ‘Disha’, which means direction, but is actually directionless. However, I personally felt the need to expose such hypocrites. In …
Umar Nizar One fine morning, I was answering the call of nature, like any `Swachch’ citizen of a sacred land, in the designated toilet of a JNU hostel, where I was residing at that time. Imagine my astonishment, on being accosted by a fellow hosteler who, while brushing his teeth, and foaming at the mouth,was …
Salas Shende The story revolves around a (dalit) sociologist and his struggle of going from nothing to a professor in an esteemed institution like Tata Institute of Social Sciences. From Karla village to Mumbai, the journey is quite long. The book describes the village life including the culture, caste and gender based discrimination and rituals. …
Neha Whenever an issue of discrimination against marginalized students in higher educational institutions comes in to light, there are always narratives that are projected in mainstream space to deny casteism. Narratives that are thrown towards marginalized communities demanding answers from them rather than institutions taking accountability. Recently majority marginalized students applying for JNU’s PhD …
Sagar Kumbhare “May be I was wrong, all the while, in understanding world. In understanding love, pain, life, death. There was no urgency. But I always was rushing. Desperate to start a life. All the while, some people, for them, life itself is curse. My birth is my fatal accident. I can never recover from …
Annesha Mukherjee, Satyaki Dasgupta and K Chandra Shekar The outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020 saw a number of reports highlighting the plight of students in the country because administrations of higher educational institutions asked them to vacate their hostels. In this light, we conducted a survey among students in September using Google …