In 2023, the University of Madras hiked the PhD thesis submission fee from ₹100 to ₹25,000 for full-time scholars. I asked under RTI who approved it.
It took three years, two appeals and REPEATED DIRECTIONS from the State Information Commission to get an answer. Here is what that answer exposes. #MadrasUniversity 1/9
Please help Kavirabai who diagnosed with Acute Kidney Failure and family financial status is not good can't afford cost of further treatment, We are grateful for any support and prayers you can offer during this incredibly challenging time.
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Across parts of Chhattisgarh, Christian families and activists describe a pattern of social boycotts, economic coercion, blackmail and physical violence directed at those who resist pressure to “return” to Hinduism.
Reportage by Zenaira Bakhsh (@Zenairaaa) and Mrinalini Dhyani (@mrinalinidhyani).
Read the full story here: https://t.co/CV9DZ5veFD
Mohammad Sharif, who spent 17 to 18 years in jail before the Allahabad High Court acquitted him in the 2008 Rampur CRPF attack case, was shot dead in Rampur moments after leaving a police station that had repeatedly summoned him, prompting Rihai Manch to demand an impartial probe into possible police involvement.
@ghazalaahmad5 reports:
https://t.co/1sFjFr7XiU
How much longer must my children suffer? 💔
How long must we fight just to survive? Have mercy on us. Don't let us face this winter alone.
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#Gaza#HelpGaza#Palestine
It is a question of academic autonomy when even the head of a department says his views are missing from the final decisions, DU owes its faculty and students a transparent explanation. (n/n) https://t.co/fE0dta7Mr7
In August, we reported that several long-standing papers had disappeared from DU’s syllabus, including one on the Delhi Sultanate and structures of authority in medieval North India. (6/n)
Consider one of the recommendations that particularly disturbed the department: The Expert Committee suggested dropping a paper titled 'History of Education in Colonial India' taught for over a decade, describing it as “ideologically loaded”. (4/n)
In a letter to VC Yogesh Singh he wrote the Expert Committee’s final report did not document his detailed arguments. In other words, the department head says his participation did not translate into his views being reflected in the final syllabus cuts. (3/n)
The latest controversy concerns the review of the MA History Semester III syllabus. According to minutes of a Department meeting HoD Anirudh Deshpande told faculty that he was “not being made a party to final decisions” on the syllabus review. (2/n)
EXCLUSIVE: DU's History Department has been at the centre of repeated syllabus changes, with papers taught for decades facing the axe. Now, the department’s own head wrote that his views were not reflected in the final changes of a Vice-Chancellor-appointed Expert Committee.(1/n)
NEW | The IIT Bombay administration met a legitimate protest with a crackdown. An institution that cannot tolerate dissent has forfeited its claim to be a university.
@AnandTeltumbde writes.
#SahilWakode#Mumbai#IIT
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In today's news from Bengal, Presidency University has expelled a master's student—an undergraduate gold medallist—and barred her from future enrolment, for the sheer crime of standing beside an alumna friend who scrawled "rapist" on an ABVP poster featuring Vivekananda. (1/2)
I thought we had seen everything in the Mark-Fisher-hate-o-scene but I think we have found a new transcendental form of MF hate - a guy that has read nothing of Fisher, but has been seething over a screenshot he's kept safe for over 15 years lmao
This is comically evil behaviour from Professor @vijayramdas of University of Hyderabad, and I fail to see how anything short of termination would constitute appropriate redress for such a casteist and feudalistic mindset.