The recent decision by St Aloysius Institutions, to name a park in one of their institution premises, in the outskirts of Mangalore city, after Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Father Stan Swamy, has come in for opposition from right-wing groups like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal. […]
Two students were badly injured in a brazen attack inside the Visva Bharti campus. The attack on students, vocal against CAA and NRC, was led by known local BJP goons. A GroundXero report. Today, in the evening, two students of Visva Bharati were badly injured when an armed gang led by an ex- student […]
In a rapid response to the brutal attack on students and teachers at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Mumbai saw a massive mobilisation by student and civil society groups near the iconic Gateway of India. Below is a short description of the protest. A GroundXero report. The protest, dubbed Occupy Gateway, started on 6 […]
Last night, a pre-planned attack was launched by masked goons of Akhil BharatiyaVidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), on the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, while the police in campus remained a by stander. Student holds the Central Government and JNU administration responsible for the attack. A GroundXero report. The members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad […]
যাদবপুর ক্যাম্পাসে তখন গানে গানে প্রতিরোধের শপথ। ‘ইনকিলাব জিন্দাবাদ’-এর সঙ্গেই রব উঠছিল ‘হোক হোক হোক কলরব’। গোলপার্ক থেকে এবিভিপি‘র নামে যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় অভিযান, যোধপুর পার্কে পুলিশি ব্যারিকেডের সামনে এসে কেমন মিইয়ে গেল। লিখেছেন দেবাশিস আইচ এবং সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী। এক। দলিত, ফ্যাসিস্ত, আজাদি… এ কী শব্দচয়ন ‘এবিভিপি‘-র অভিযানে? প্রশ্ন তুললেন দেবাশিস আইচ। বহ্বারম্ভে লঘুক্রিয়া। এবিভিপি’র […]
আরএসএস–এর প্রত্যক্ষ তালিমে যে ছাত্র সংগঠনটি বিশ্ববিদ্যার মুক্ত আলয়কে কয়েদখানায় পরিণত করতে চায় বাবুল সুপ্রিয় তাদের প্রতিনিধি। যারা রাষ্ট্রীয় রক্ষাকবচের বলে কোনোরকম শাস্তির ভয় ছাড়াই ইচ্ছেমাফিক পিটিয়ে, পুড়িয়ে হত্যা করতে পারে দলিত, আদিবাসী, মুসলমানদের বাবুল সুপ্রিয় তাদের প্রতিনিধি। ছাত্র–ছাত্রীদের অধিকার রয়েছে অসহিষ্ণু হয়ে ওঠার। ধৈর্য হারানোর। লিখেছেন দেবাশিস আইচ। ‘Patience,’ wrote Ambrose Bierce […]
Following the disruption of the electoral process by ABVP vandalism, the JNU administration is using the attack as a ruse for further securitisation and surveillance on campus, while the known perpetrators of the violence roam around free and entitled. Women have particularly been the target of these new policies and have been fighting back through […]
Prior to NAAC visit Pondicherry University authorities put up pro-Hindu propaganda boards in student hostels. The students took them down and resisted the saffron agenda. A GroundXero report. Since yesterday, over 400 students in Pondicherry Central University had gone on indefinite class boycott accusing the university administration of promoting saffronization of education. This was […]
The very next day after the JNUSU elections see the larger voter turnout in 6 years, ABVP activists disrupted the counting of the polls throughout the day, allegedly resorting to violence on multiple occasions, specifically targeting anti-ABVP student activists. Several students have been beaten up, alleged ‘outsiders’ with canes have entered the campus, and the […]
“… good examples [of virtue] arise from good education, good education from good laws, and good laws from those tumults that many inconsiderately damn.” – Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy The struggle in Manipur University has been continuing for more than fifty days now. Manipur University Students’ Union (MUSU) has demanded the removal of […]