Jamia: Beyond anti-national tag
Abhay Kumar, “Beyond Anti-National Tag”, Seminar Magazine, March, 2021.
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Is AMU “anti-national”? Those who say so don’t know its history
The communal narrative often hides the fact that pre and post-Partition, AMU has been a stronghold of the Left. A galaxy of poets, lyricists, novelists, writers, historians and social scientists with a clear Left leaning have all come from AMU.
‘Is Najeeb Not a Citizen of This Country?’
“Is my son not a citizen of this country? Am I not a citizen of India? Why doesn’t he [Modi] give instructions to the police that Najeeb should be found?
Holding onto Ambedkar: The emergence of BAPSA and the challenge to Left and Right
Meet Shabana, BAPSA’s presidential candidate for JNUSU Elections 2017
What Explains the Police Crackdown on AMU?
What could be more brutal than Saturday’s police-crackdown on the protesting students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)? Doesn’t it reveal the deep-seated anti-Muslim prejudice of our police?
BJP and the Politics of Uniform Civil Code
The Saffron outfits are hopeful that by invoking the issue of “oppression” of Muslim women, they would be able to polarise voters on religious ground ahead of the upcoming UP Assembly Elections.
Missing Najeeb : What it means to be Najeeb’s mother and sister
No sooner had the mother got down than she burst into tears: “Allah! Aaj phir baghair Najeeb ke wapas aayi (Allah! again I am back home without bringing Najeeb along).”
Reading the Silence of Kashmiri Students at AMU
On the 5th of October afternoon, when I entered Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), I felt silence reigning there amid the din of sloganeering days before students’ union elections. The silence was about the recent expulsion of a Kashmiri student.
Hindutva Terror in JNU: Student Najeeb Still Missing
JNU remains on the boil ever since the disappearance of the first-year Biotechnology student Najeeb Ahmad.
Kashmiri students and Indian universities
The possibility of a genuine research has become almost closed at these sites of persecution