Rather than providing avenues and spaces which can promote critical thinking and a questioning attitude towards issues of hierarchy and gender bias, AMU actually ends up reinforcing it.
Sakshi Maharaj, the BJP MP from Unnao, is only reiterating the long held beliefs of his party on madrasas. But for those who still have some regard for facts, here are some
That is what the BJP's minority affairs minister had to say when questioned about the outrage perpetrated by the Shiv Sena MPs in the heart of Delhi. Where's the justice? Who is being appeased?
The dictatorial and anti-academic attitude of the Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia has neither attracted media attention nor elicited any discussion within the teaching community
Why is there a deafening sound of silence at the ease with which the government capitulated to the demand for exempting madrasas from the provisions of the Right to Education (RTE) Act?
A whole range of self-appointed guardians of Muslims took it upon themselves to turn Jamia Millia University into a minority institution. Did they even think through the implications?
Muslims in the Arab world have had enough of their dictators. One hopes that l'affaire Vastanvi would lead to Indian Muslims in general and Deoband students in particular to start articulating a similar demand
Contrary to what many commentators have written, the mood on the Muslim street is not one of betrayal but a positive acceptance of the judgment as a respectable way forward towards an amicable solution.
