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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

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Vilification from the apolitical: The Dreyfus Affair and the case against JNU: Joyojeet Pal

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Chomsky to JNU V-C: why did you allow police on campus?

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ABVP: In the footsteps of Pakistan’s Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba; ominously so

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The Real Classroom: Outdoor Lectures Dissect Nationalism at JNU

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Consolidated Solidarity Statements in Support of JNU

by Sunalini KumarWe are consolidating the statements received in...

Who Gets to Fund Higher Education? A Hindu Nationalist Donor Raises Controversy

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