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AAA The row over the notice served by the University of Calicut on K.S. Madhavan, Associate Professor, Department of History, has not ended as yet. The authorities have not officially responded to his explanation sent by mail.
The university, however, claimed through a recent press release that the notice should not be misconstrued as an act of vengeance. It was just an attempt to protect its reputation, the authorities said.
Mr. Madhavan, a well-known public intellectual having in-depth understanding on Dalit issues, had co-authored an article in the Malayalam newspaper
Madhyamam with another academic P.K. Pokker on April 21, criticising the alleged violation of reservation policies in Kerala’s universities. The article had claimed that the National Commission for Scheduled Castes had sought a detailed report from the university on the “sabotage of reservation rules”.
Ambedkar in 2021, Episode 3: Probing Caste Violence at the Visible, Symbolic, and Structural Levels
In this episode, we speak to Parthasarathi Muthukkaruppan about the everyday aspects of caste violence and cultural modes of opposing subordination.
What are the implications of studying Dr Ambedkar’s texts in an Indian public university? What are the multiple forms of violence that caste thrives on, and how are these contested? What is the importance of naming, particularly the use of the terms Harijan, Scheduled Caste and Dalit ?
These are a few of the questions that Parthasarathi Muthukkaruppan explores on this week s episode of Research Radio. Dr Muthukkaruppan teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His research interests include cultural theory, literature, cinema, visual culture and continental philosophy.
For Afghan students, Hyderabad is more home than foreign
Out of the 900 or so Afghan students studying across India, about 200 are believed to be living in Telangana alone, mostly in Hyderabad.
By Falguni Lalwani| Updated: 3rd April 2021 2:59 pm IST Afghan students taking part in a fashion show during the inaugural day of the 10-day Afghan food and cultural festival that kicked off in Hyderabad on April 1, 2021. (Photo: Siasat.com)
Hyderabad: India is home to many cultures that coexist together and many foreign nationals have also made the sub-continent their home over decades. Afghanistan, which lies on our north-west, is one such country wherein its citizens have been coming to India for many years, given that people on both sides love Bollywood and even cricket.
EFLU students protest over reopening of hostels and library, detained
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Students of English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), who staged a ‘silent protest’ in front of the campus gate demanding the administration to reopen the hostels, were detained by the Osmania University police here on Sunday evening.
The students said that their career would be at stake if the administration did not give access to hostels, the library, and internet for online classes.
“We sat on a peaceful, 24-hour hunger strike that was started at 12 noon requesting the administration to open the hostels and provide students with access to educational resources and internet facilities necessary for the completion of courses,” one of the protesting students told
EFLU students detained by police during hunger strike
By SM Bilal| Updated: 15th March 2021 8:53 am IST
Hyderabad: Students of the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, were forcibly detained by the cops from the Osmania police station on Sunday evening.
The students were on a 24-hour hunger strike with a demand to reopen the hostels, library and other campus facilities for the students. The hunger strike began at 12 PM outside Gate 2 of the university.
Students from EFLU have staged two sit-in protests so far, with the same demand in last one month. Both the times, negotiations were held between the administration and the students, but with no result.