PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2011 ID-6346
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"lT6 "{~ \fCJ~(J'R 'lll q~-q~ ~lJ ~fhftin aTalkand R~:~~~rt'fi,Viqq;e.n,lli(\ti-'1'li}-~.
Poetry Reading aT'f~nl ~q;-~'If; trn <PT 'fllf 1{1fT Yeh Mrityu Upotyoka ~hrtfr ~i rn.tltt ~ -.fW <q Ji q;tfl 'lat'fi Cfh aTT~ ufm m Nahin Hai Mera Desh ~lf ftn~~ lf vr~ ~ f9~411 { crl UctH'I-'if\f ~~.
8 Nov Tonight 1 .
Kaveri Mess Iliterature In Times of ri ~ ~"RNlfT 1ffit ~ftf q} \iHI~ Cf} ft1 1..... .
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.Repression and Resistance .
9.3opm .
Today, on the fifth day ofthe indefinite hunger strike, the JNU administration finally agreed to revoke the ban on the JNU dissent. We also thank progressive sections ofthe JNU faculty who have supported us in this struggle rightfrom the beginning..
Forum.AISAcongratu!ates the studentcommunity for spiritedly participating in the ongoing struggle to defend our democratic spaces of debate and One needstotime and again underline the importance ofthis struggle:Recently, in Delhi University, the administration abjectly know-.
towed to fascist diktats issued by the Sangh1brigade and removed A.K. Ramanujam's celebrated essay' 3(]()Ramayanas from the undergraduate .
syllabus.In Banaras Hindu University and Jamia Milfia lslamia, students and student groups cannot even organise publjcmeetings and demonsbarons. .
Inthese campuses,the Proctor'sOffice literally polices students all the time to watch out' for any signs ofstudent activity. And now in JNU -which is .
CJ raknown for jts long tradition ofdebate and dissent of attemative interpretations and ideas challenging accepted notions-the JNU admjnisb ation tried to tell us that theywill decide wbat can be written and talked about. which student can use the JNUSU office and wbo can't1 The JNU student .
community knows whatexacHy is atstake ifthis dangerous culture ofbanning and policing continues.We mustnow ask ourselves: CanVtJe anowthis .
bizarre and dangerous trend to become a practice in ourcampus? .
The Proctor's Office and the JNU administration have been claiming that the JNU Forum needs to be 'restricted' because they have allegedly violated the "lawofthe land". We would liketo ask the JNU administration:where was their great concern for the tawofthe land" when OBC .
resecvations were being blatantly scuttled. when more than 400 OBC sea1s were literaUy stolen by the JNU administration? .
community has seen how hts office turns a blind eye wheneverABVP goons indulge in violence, wheneverABVP or YFE issue viciously communal.
The political inclinations ofJNU's ChiefProctor are very clear. He has been around for almostfive years now, and the entire student .
and casteist pamphlets,using the most derogatory language and abusive language possible. In themostrecentinstance, when ABVP brought .
out apamphlet spewing venom against the Muslim community and throwing open communal abuses,the Proctor's Office acted ONLY when the .
student community caned aprotest demonstration demanding action. Under pressure from the progressive and democratic sections ofthe JNU community, the Proctor's office suspended the signatories ofthis abusive pamphlet. However, soon afterwards they quietly revoked the suspension .
and letthem offwith token fines! This softtreatment and indulgenceto right-wing forces has become the hall-mark ofthe Proctor's office .
foryears now. .
Let us notforgetthat this culture ofbanning isatypical symptom ofafascist state. which is scared ofideas that challenge it. Let us not forgetthat .
throughoutthe wortj, it is the communist movement thathas borne the bruntof banning-in severalcountries, for instance in Chile, Germany, France .
ande.lsewhere, the Communist Party was often called 'anti-national'and banned.ln India too, the Communist Party was banned underthe British banning is also the history ofmass movements against this fascist culture. It is our duty, as students, todefend JNU's democratic·~~Ionia! rule, and after the historic Naxalbariuprising, the radical Marxist-Leninist stream was forced to go underground. However, thehistoryof ethos and to stand up against the JNU administration's attempts to police us. Therefore. we believe that desptte all our political and .
ideological differences with the JNU Forum, all progressive forces strengthened the movement against the ban. .
t .
ABVP,NSUIand YFE's support ofthe ban on the JNU Forum comes as no surprise. However, SFI's complete silence on the hunger .
~ .
strikeisnoteworthy.Even when the JNUSU office was dosed by the JNUadministration, they refused to be part ofthejoint protestdemonstration. .
Infact atatime when the ONLYplace available to the JNU Forum for conducting its public meetings was the JNUSU office, SFI strengthenedthe JNU't administration byclaiming thatthe JNUSU office should notbe used for 'partisan' purposes! Even at that time, we had pointed outthat practically every .
( .
meetingthat takes place in the JNUSU office is 'partisan'-whether it is ameeting against the imposition of Lyngdoh recommendations in JNU,or .
c .
~ .
, agaiostABVP's lumpenism,or to defend reservations and socialjustice.Therefore, this simplistic"logic" against"partisan" activitiesjustdoes not make .
f= .
anysense,and in fact strengthens the JNU administration's intentions to oolice and ban organisations as per their prejudices and ideological Jj .
u predilections. And now, when an indefinite hunger strike was going on, SFI shamefully choseto openly boycott themovement! .
and to reiterateourcommitment to defend all democratic spaces ofdebate and dissent, we appealto thestudentcommunitytoparticipateinAJSA's Yesterday was the 94t~anniversary ofthe historic Bolshevik Revolution ofRussia in 1917. To To reassert the leagacy of Bolshevik revoltution, .
ofrepressionandresistance".Nabarun,son of well-known author and activist Mahashweta Devi, has written extensively on these issues, and public meeting tonight from 9.30pm onwards, where revolutionary poet and writer Nabarun Bhattacharya willtalk "Literature in times .
\ exemplifiesthe glorious tradition of literary opposition to state repression.This publicmeeting was originally supposed to beheld at theAd .
I \ .
Block, butsincethe hunger strike is over,the venue has been shifted to Kaveri mess. .
Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Scc)., A ISA.JNU Piyush, Vice-President, AISA, JNU .
.
Tl -.
SE .
Sandeep Saurav, Gcn.Sccy., A ISA,JNU Akbar Chaudhary, President, AISA, JNU .
P.l. .
anyissue related to functioningof educationalinstrtutJons. Ana several propo~t:U ·~·-:,........... ·-.-ensure that theneweducationalinstitutionswill scuttleeventheexisting levelsof social inclusioninhighereducation. .
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2011 ID-6346
.
"lT6 "{~ \fCJ~(J'R 'lll q~-q~ ~lJ ~fhftin aTalkand R~:~~~rt'fi,Viqq;e.n,lli(\ti-'1'li}-~.
Poetry Reading aT'f~nl ~q;-~'If; trn <PT 'fllf 1{1fT Yeh Mrityu Upotyoka ~hrtfr ~i rn.tltt ~ -.fW <q Ji q;tfl 'lat'fi Cfh aTT~ ufm m Nahin Hai Mera Desh ~lf ftn~~ lf vr~ ~ f9~411 { crl UctH'I-'if\f ~~.
8 Nov Tonight 1 .
Kaveri Mess Iliterature In Times of ri ~ ~"RNlfT 1ffit ~ftf q} \iHI~ Cf} ft1 1..... .
.
.Repression and Resistance .
9.3opm .
Today, on the fifth day ofthe indefinite hunger strike, the JNU administration finally agreed to revoke the ban on the JNU dissent. We also thank progressive sections ofthe JNU faculty who have supported us in this struggle rightfrom the beginning..
Forum.AISAcongratu!ates the studentcommunity for spiritedly participating in the ongoing struggle to defend our democratic spaces of debate and One needstotime and again underline the importance ofthis struggle:Recently, in Delhi University, the administration abjectly know-.
towed to fascist diktats issued by the Sangh1brigade and removed A.K. Ramanujam's celebrated essay' 3(]()Ramayanas from the undergraduate .
syllabus.In Banaras Hindu University and Jamia Milfia lslamia, students and student groups cannot even organise publjcmeetings and demonsbarons. .
Inthese campuses,the Proctor'sOffice literally polices students all the time to watch out' for any signs ofstudent activity. And now in JNU -which is .
CJ raknown for jts long tradition ofdebate and dissent of attemative interpretations and ideas challenging accepted notions-the JNU admjnisb ation tried to tell us that theywill decide wbat can be written and talked about. which student can use the JNUSU office and wbo can't1 The JNU student .
community knows whatexacHy is atstake ifthis dangerous culture ofbanning and policing continues.We mustnow ask ourselves: CanVtJe anowthis .
bizarre and dangerous trend to become a practice in ourcampus? .
The Proctor's Office and the JNU administration have been claiming that the JNU Forum needs to be 'restricted' because they have allegedly violated the "lawofthe land". We would liketo ask the JNU administration:where was their great concern for the tawofthe land" when OBC .
resecvations were being blatantly scuttled. when more than 400 OBC sea1s were literaUy stolen by the JNU administration? .
community has seen how hts office turns a blind eye wheneverABVP goons indulge in violence, wheneverABVP or YFE issue viciously communal.
The political inclinations ofJNU's ChiefProctor are very clear. He has been around for almostfive years now, and the entire student .
and casteist pamphlets,using the most derogatory language and abusive language possible. In themostrecentinstance, when ABVP brought .
out apamphlet spewing venom against the Muslim community and throwing open communal abuses,the Proctor's Office acted ONLY when the .
student community caned aprotest demonstration demanding action. Under pressure from the progressive and democratic sections ofthe JNU community, the Proctor's office suspended the signatories ofthis abusive pamphlet. However, soon afterwards they quietly revoked the suspension .
and letthem offwith token fines! This softtreatment and indulgenceto right-wing forces has become the hall-mark ofthe Proctor's office .
foryears now. .
Let us notforgetthat this culture ofbanning isatypical symptom ofafascist state. which is scared ofideas that challenge it. Let us not forgetthat .
throughoutthe wortj, it is the communist movement thathas borne the bruntof banning-in severalcountries, for instance in Chile, Germany, France .
ande.lsewhere, the Communist Party was often called 'anti-national'and banned.ln India too, the Communist Party was banned underthe British banning is also the history ofmass movements against this fascist culture. It is our duty, as students, todefend JNU's democratic·~~Ionia! rule, and after the historic Naxalbariuprising, the radical Marxist-Leninist stream was forced to go underground. However, thehistoryof ethos and to stand up against the JNU administration's attempts to police us. Therefore. we believe that desptte all our political and .
ideological differences with the JNU Forum, all progressive forces strengthened the movement against the ban. .
t .
ABVP,NSUIand YFE's support ofthe ban on the JNU Forum comes as no surprise. However, SFI's complete silence on the hunger .
~ .
strikeisnoteworthy.Even when the JNUSU office was dosed by the JNUadministration, they refused to be part ofthejoint protestdemonstration. .
Infact atatime when the ONLYplace available to the JNU Forum for conducting its public meetings was the JNUSU office, SFI strengthenedthe JNU't administration byclaiming thatthe JNUSU office should notbe used for 'partisan' purposes! Even at that time, we had pointed outthat practically every .
( .
meetingthat takes place in the JNUSU office is 'partisan'-whether it is ameeting against the imposition of Lyngdoh recommendations in JNU,or .
c .
~ .
, agaiostABVP's lumpenism,or to defend reservations and socialjustice.Therefore, this simplistic"logic" against"partisan" activitiesjustdoes not make .
f= .
anysense,and in fact strengthens the JNU administration's intentions to oolice and ban organisations as per their prejudices and ideological Jj .
u predilections. And now, when an indefinite hunger strike was going on, SFI shamefully choseto openly boycott themovement! .
and to reiterateourcommitment to defend all democratic spaces ofdebate and dissent, we appealto thestudentcommunitytoparticipateinAJSA's Yesterday was the 94t~anniversary ofthe historic Bolshevik Revolution ofRussia in 1917. To To reassert the leagacy of Bolshevik revoltution, .
ofrepressionandresistance".Nabarun,son of well-known author and activist Mahashweta Devi, has written extensively on these issues, and public meeting tonight from 9.30pm onwards, where revolutionary poet and writer Nabarun Bhattacharya willtalk "Literature in times .
\ exemplifiesthe glorious tradition of literary opposition to state repression.This publicmeeting was originally supposed to beheld at theAd .
I \ .
Block, butsincethe hunger strike is over,the venue has been shifted to Kaveri mess. .
Sandeep Saurav, Gen.Scc)., A ISA.JNU Piyush, Vice-President, AISA, JNU .
.
Tl -.
SE .
Sandeep Saurav, Gcn.Sccy., A ISA,JNU Akbar Chaudhary, President, AISA, JNU .
P.l. .
anyissue related to functioningof educationalinstrtutJons. Ana several propo~t:U ·~·-:,........... ·-.-ensure that theneweducationalinstitutionswill scuttleeventheexisting levelsof social inclusioninhighereducation. .
.
.