Indian academic spaces remain ‘filter-kaapi’ publics: Sipping Chai, Reasoning Prof. Amartya Sen Dickens Leonard M I wish to write on a lecture that went undelivered, an appeal that never materialized! On 19th December, 2013, Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, was conferred, yet another, honorary doctorate at University of Hyderabad. The event was dramatic, colorful, …
Prof Amartya Sen, Address Caste Discrimination in University of Hyderabad
Raju-Venkatesh Solidarity Committee This appeal finds its importance and urgency in the context of Prof.Amartya Sen’s arrival to University of Hyderabad on 19th December 2013; as well as, due to the prolonged student protests and debates against the Vice Chancellor and the administration, at the campus. In the wake of Dalit suicides, systemic failure …
The “Secular” Ganesha and the “Communal” Asura
The “Secular” Ganesha and the “Communal” Asura: From the Trenches of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad ~ Struggle Committee, EFLU The English and Foreign Languages University has filed a criminal case (dated: 11/09/13) for which six students (four students from the SC/ST/OBC communities and two women students) have been sent summons by …
Kalekuri Prasad Memorial Meet
On Saturday, June 1, 2013 From 6:00 pm till 9:00 pm at Press Club, Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad.
Countering Academic Questions through Policing in EFLU
Thahir Jamal KM On 29th of April, the whole non-teaching staff along with some students started agitations in front of the administrative block demanding compensation for the deceased contract employee, who fell down from the fourth floor of the academic block of EFLU. All of a sudden, around 200 armed policemen rushed into the …
Public Lecture on Regionalising India By Prof. G. Aloysius
Department of Social Exclusion Studies, EFL-University Invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘Regionalising India’ By Prof. G. Aloysius On 29 April, 2013, at 4 PM Venue: Conference Hall, Administrative Block, EFL-University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
No More Student Suicides, No More Caste Discrimination, No More Dropouts
Forum Against Caste Discrimination in Education Acknowledging the widespread caste discrimination prevalent across the Indian campuses and in solidarity with the ongoing protest by Dalit, Adivasi and Backward caste students of the School of Germanic Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, more than 200 students, teachers and professionals from across the country …
Run for Caste Free India
On Sunday, 14th April at 6:30am. Starting from Ambedkar Statue,Tankbund, Necklace road, Hyderabad. Caste Free India – A Cherished Dream
Statement in support of the struggle for justice for Mudasir Kamran
[Via Ravi Chandran] March 11, 2013. We express our solidarity with the ongoing struggle of the students of the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad following the unfortunate suicide of Mudasir Kamran, a PhD student at the University, on March 02, 2013. We are dismayed at the insensitivity with which the University administration has handled the situations that …