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The youth caught in the exam leak crisis
For a student preparing for a competitive examination, the exam date can mean months of work coming down to a few hours. There are early mornings, long study sessions,...
LSR students demand resignation of hostel warden and college principal
Starting the detailed statement with “Hostel Warden Istifa Do!” (Hostel Warden Resign!) LSR hostel residents demanded removal of the hostel vacation policies that put undue pressure on out-station and low-income group students.
NSU demands immediate announcement of BARTI fellowship
Maharashtra’s SC students worry about the delayed BANRF fellowship amid the economic crisis.
Delhi and Telangana students demand justice for LSR student’s death by suicide
Students hold the government and university authorities accountable for ignoring students from low-income groups during the pandemic, especially the severe financial burden due to delayed scholarships
Student organisations call LSR student suicide an institutional murder
Students claim that authorities' inconsideration towards its low-income group students during the lockdown crisis resulted in the death of a state-topper from Telangana
LSR Student Union claim institutional and administrative apathy led to student suicide
“Not a suicide, but an institutional murder” said SFI members of the LSR college where a second-year student from a low-income family died by suicide due to financial pressure.
Ambedkar University Delhi students demand meeting with VC for fee reduction
Students of AUD plan to hold a protest outside university campus to demand reduction in high fees and removal of changes in reservation policies.
If police are our friends, why are they beating us: University students
Students from AMU, JNU and JMI respond to the sweeping statements made by university administration officials during a webinar on university discipline.
1,300 marginalised from over 11,000 students pass competitive exams
In the last four years, the Centre says that a little more than 1000 students have passed competitive examinations.
PMS fund allocation yet to be received by some states
Punjab, Haryana and other states and Union Territories still await PMS funds from the Centre, shows data from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
No Mid-day meals disbursed in Goa during lockdown: Education Ministry
In 2017-18, Assam recorded Highest dropout of girls from secondary school while Delhi recorded highest enrolment of girls
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Gender and Sexuality
Women journalists who were attacked prevented from reporting, protest attacks
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, on-ground reporting by women journalists, invites threats and abuse from the authorities; is it a coincidence that all three states are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?
Media
Reporter attacked on DU Campus, DUJ condemns assault
The body of journalists has condemned the attack on a female reporter as also the fact that the police remained ‘mute spectators’
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Outside the World, Outside the Page: Why We Are More Receptive to Dalit Suffering than Dalit Anger
The author, a student in Bengaluru, asks why Dalit suffering is more readily received than Dalit anger in literature, cinema and public life. Is it because sorrow allows readers and viewers to remain sympathetic observers, while anger and refusal can challenge that comfortable distance?
Environment
Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts
Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.
Labour
Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.