AIFRTE condemns in strongest terms the violent assault on the academic community by RSS student wing ABVP at Ramjas College (Delhi University) and Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur. What is even more disturbing in both the cases is abject surrender amounting…
Nandini Sundar, Archana Prasad case: Stop witch hunt, Drop false implication
The People’s Union of Civil Liberties strongly condemns the action of the Chhattisgarh police in registering an FIR (Cr. No. 27/2016 PS Tongpal dated…
Two Years of Modi Sarkar- Broken Promises: Sectarian Agenda
The performance of the Modi Government during last two years has to be seen in the light of the promises made in the electoral campaign and on the barometer…
Acche din for hate mongers
It was unfortunate to hear the legal brain of the government Mr Arun Jaitley expressing helplessness on the issue of online trolling of people on the day when the prime minister was holding a meeting with his party’s ‘social media volunteers’ in Delhi. …
Do Educational Institutes need lectures on Patriotism?
The issues related to our educational institutions-patriotism started coming up to the fore with this Government coming to power (May 2014). One after the other news of Government intervention in different institutions, more so the nationally well known ones…
Blue & Red: from Rohith Vemula to Kanhaiyya Kumar
JNU administration has not brought itself to glory when it expelled all the students charged with ‘sedition’ activities without giving them a chance to explain their position and when the matter is subjudice. What happens if the courts exonerate the students…
Undermining Democracy: Stifling Academic Institutions
On the back of the death of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University (HCU), one of the most prestigious University of the country Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been targeted by the ruling Modi Sarkar. The frightening things which happened in HCU…
Rise of a New Radical Dalit Discourse: Rohith, Kanhaiya & more…
Rohith Vemula To Kanhaiya Kumar – it’s not yet over Rohith Vemula’s death is not just an institutional murder; rather it is the systemic stratagem of a deadly design of caste within Indian educational institutions. His death has raised eyebrows of the…
Mumbai students extend support to JNU
This is a petition to the Government of India from a collection of students from Mumbai colleges. The chief petitioners are students of a Mumbai college and can be contacted at studentswithjnu@gmail.com We, the students of Mumbai extend our support to and…
Dissent termed Anti National, Undeclared Emergency at JNU
AIFRTE Statement on Assault on JNU Students & Arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of Sedition AIFRTE strongly condemns the Delhi Police assault on the Jawaharlal Nehru University students at the behest of the central government with Home…