BAPSA BAPSA’s President, Bhupali Vitthal Magare and two other BAPSA activists, Rahul Sonpimple and Praveen Thallapelli have been academically suspended and debarred from hostels by the JNU VC/Admin along with other students, Dawa Sherpa, Dillip Yadav, Mulayam Singh, Dillip Kumar, Virendra, Sakeel Anjum, Prashant Nihal, for organising protest outside Academic Council (AC) Meeting on …
Protest Against the Conviction of SC/ST/OBC Students from EFLU
Jai Bhim!Friends, do join the effigy burning of EFL-U Admin, tonight (17th Dec 2016) at 9:00 pm at Sabarmati Dhaba.
Wherever Caste exists in the World, Ambedkar and Marx will remain Irreconcilable
Dr Manisha Bangar NVP BAMCEF In India, and wherever in the world Caste exists, Ambedkar and Marx will remain Irreconcilable. Starting from the happenings in Hyderabad Central University in August 2015 when the students of ASA were ostracized, more so from the time of the Institutional murder of Rohith Vemula in January 2016, from …
Remembering Dharti Aba Birsa Munda
BAPSA JNU, New Delhi Remembering Dharti Aba Birsa Munda on 15th Nov Remembering the Foundation Day of BAPSA Intensifying Struggle of Justice for Najeeb The class was going on as usual in the German Mission School at Burj, Chaibasa. A teacher named Dr Nottrott repeatedly uttered derogatory words against the Mundas. A boy left …
Where are the Women Professors from the SC/ST/OBC categories?
Prachi Patil Speech made at the protest organised by United OBC Forum and BAPSA on 9th June, 2016 against the discriminatory Anti-OBC Reservation circular of UGC/MHRD which denies OBC reservations in Faculty Recruitments and Promotions. Jai Bhim Friends, I will only take a few minutes of your time. Speakers before me have placed their …
Is one sufficiently patriotic only if one is a Hindu cow-vigilante?
Vinod Kumar Hindutva cultural nationalism is at its peak today. So the day is not far when India becomes a country like Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy. We have all witnessed how the cow-vigilantes are promoted by the VHP, RSS and its political outfit, the BJP. People from oppressed communities across the country are …
Caste and the Aporias of Muslim Theo-Politics
This is the second part of the three-part series ‘Dialogue with BAPSA’. Please read the first part here. Khalid Anis Ansari In the context of the dialogue with BAPSA on its problematic association with the Muslim Right, as exemplified by Jamaat’s student wing SIO, I feel the argument on Muslim theo-politics and caste advanced …
JNUSU Elections- Three ideas of Nation
Vivek Singh JNU has been in the limelight since 9th February, when supposedly “anti-national and seditious” slogans were raised in the campus (the matter is sub judice). In this scenario, many eyes were turned towards the JNU Students Union elections which happened this September. What was also evident is that the idea of nation …
Why Oppressed Unity Inside and Outside the Campuses
Purnachandra Naik & Vinod Kumar In this country, all the oppressed communities have been victims of the oppressive Brahmanical fascist religio-cultural hegemony. The inequality and oppression of the marginalised communities is sanctioned by the Brahminical religious scriptures. And the Sangh Parivar (RSS, BJP, ABVP) make a concealed yet concerted attempt to perpetuate and reinforce …