In university founded on Tagore’s ideals, now a clash of ideologies
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On Monday, nearly 400 people march to varsity’s central office, demanding reversal of suspension of Sudipta Bhattacharyya, a vocal critic of VC
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Visva-Bharati, the Rabindranath Tagore-founded institution celebrating its centenary, has come to symbolise essentially a clash between the right-wing and the left-wing in West Bengal.
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On Monday, nearly 400 people march to varsity’s central office, demanding reversal of suspension of Sudipta Bhattacharyya, a vocal critic of VC
Visva-Bharati, the Rabindranath Tagore-founded institution celebrating its centenary, has come to symbolise essentially a clash between the right-wing and the left-wing in West Bengal, where elections are due in April.
DU allows final year practical classes from February, theory classes to remain online
DUSU had also submitted a memorandum to the DSW and the librarian of Central Reference Library demanding phased reopening of libraries and colleges. (Image Source: File Photo)
Updated: Jan 7, 2021, 06:30 PM IST
Final-year students of colleges affiliated to the Delhi University will be allowed to attend practical classes and laboratory sessions in small groups from February, an official stated. However, theory classes will remain online.
The decision was taken after the Department of Students Welfare (DSW) held meetings with college principals. According to a statement issued by the Central University s Dean of Students Welfare Rajeev Gupta, the decision to attend physical classes is optional.
COMMUNIST Party of India (Marxist) councillor Arya Rajendran made history on Monday as she became the country’s youngest mayor of a major city.
The Left Democratic Front (LDF), which also forms the state government, triumphed in the elections to local authorities, winning in more than half of all village councils, two-thirds of district councils and in five out of six municipal corporations.
The 21-year-old maths student, a CPI(M) member and activist since secondary school, was elected mayor of Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram corporation after being proposed as the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate for the post.
Thiruvananthapuram, formerly and informally known as Trivandrum, is the southern state’s capital, with a population of almost a million people.
Half of the seats in Kerala’s local bodies are reserved for women, while top elected posts are kept aside for women for alternate terms. The last mayor being popular leader V K Prasanth, it was the turn of a woman to hold the post. The two women leaders the CPM had projected as mayor candidates both lost the election.
Despite being active in politics for years, Arya had to keep her academic life apart. Both her college and the school she studied in, Carmel Girls’ Higher Secondary School, are Church-run institutions that don’t look favourably on campus politics. Arya expects she won’t be able to attend classes regularly once she takes up her new assignment. “But all my teachers and friends are really helpful. I will figure out a way to continue my studies as well,” she says.
She is also the state president of the Balasangham. Arya says her immediate priorities are to work for the welfare of the people and also to continue her studies.