Jashn-e-Azadi Successfully Screened at Delhi University Despite Right Wing Hooligan Threats and Police Pressure:AISA

by Shuddhabrata Sengupta

Guest Post by AISA

AISA and Students of Sociology Department (DU) Successfully Screen Jashn-e-Azaadi in DU, Braving Attacks and Threats by ABVP and ‘Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena’! Hundreds of Delhi University Students Participate in Film Screening and Discussion with Sanjay Kak, Director of Jashn-e-Azaadi!!

Today hundreds of DU students and teachers participated the screening of the documentary film  Jashn-e-Azaadi organized by AISA and students of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Delhi University. “Predictably this screening had to held in the teeth of opposition from right-wing fascist forces like ABVP and the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, who tried their level best to stall the screening. Moreover, the DU administration and the Delhi Police also shamefully sided with these forces and tried to pressurize the Sociology department to stop the screening”, said Harshvardhan Tripathi Secretary DU, AISA.

AISA had taken proper permission for this programme on Monday itself (13th of February, 2012). However, the DU administration and the Delhi police tried to prevent the movie from being screened. Since early this morning, the Delhi police kept calling the organizers (AISA representatives), stating that the Police has been receiving “threats” from ABVP and Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena. These forces openly told the Police that they would disrupt the screening, if it was allowed. “Instead of giving protection and preventing the hooligans from the entering the premises of Delhi School of Economics, Delhi police kept pressurizing the organizers to cancel the screening”, added Harshvardhan. The DU administration initially also tried to pressurize the sociology department and the organizers to cancel the programme.

However, the Sociology department stood firm in its defence of academic freedom. They demanded that the DU administration give in writing details of legal and academic grounds on the basis of which the film screening should be cancelled. Unable to give any logical response to this, the DU administration changed its stand and in a written statement, it told the Sociology department that the film screening could carry on. And so, the programme was held.

Commenting on today’s incident, director Sanjay Kak said, “By defending their right to screen the film, the Delhi School of Economics has stood for the best traditions of academic independence. And by coming in large numbers despite the intimidation, students have shown themselves to that trust. Thanks to AISA for showing the way.” The film screening in DU today was followed by a discussion with the director Sanjay Kak, who pointed out that disruption of his movie or any other talk on Kashmir serves the simple purpose of not letting the people know the reality in Kashmir.

AISA condemns the role of the Delhi police, which instead of preventing the goons from entering the premises of DSE, escorted them till the gates of Sociology department where they were stopped by the huge gathering of teachers and students. This incident should also be seen in the light of the DU administration’s recent move to remove AK Ramanujam’s essay ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas’ from BA History syllabus. Yesterday, several groups in DU (including AISA) unitedly organized a massive seminar in DU against such draconian attacks on academic freedom by right-wing forces. And today’s incident is yet another victory of progressive forces who have been fighting to reclaim the campus space from corporate and fascist take over. It is a victory for campus democracy, against hooliganism and for a culture of debate and discussion.

Courtesy : kafila.org

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Vanur victim Vellaiyan narrates his horrific experience to VCK president Thol.Thirumavalavan MP

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Part of the crowd assembled at the protest demo organized at Vanur

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VCK president President Thol.Thirumavalavan speaks in the Protest Demonsration organised at Vanur on 15.02.2012 against the inhuman act meted to Vellaiyan -a quarry worker.

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The victim mr. Vellaiyan and his wife Boobathi. They are working in a quarry near Vanur in Villupuram district of Tamilnadu. On suspicion of a minor theft one quarry owner Durai forced Vellaiyan to eat human excreta on 31.02.2012.

No More Clichés 

- Octavio Paz

Beautiful face
That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun
So do you
Open your face to me as I turn the page.

Enchanting smile
Any man would be under your spell,
Oh, beauty of a magazine.

How many poems have been written to you?
How many Dantes have written to you, Beatrice?
To your obsessive illusion
To you manufacture fantasy.

But today I won't make one more Cliché
And write this poem to you.
No, no more clichés.

This poem is dedicated to those women
Whose beauty is in their charm,
In their intelligence,
In their character,
Not on their fabricated looks.

This poem is to you women,
That like a Shahrazade wake up
Everyday with a new story to tell,
A story that sings for change
That hopes for battles:
Battles for the love of the united flesh
Battles for passions aroused by a new day
Battle for the neglected rights
Or just battles to survive one more night.

Yes, to you women in a world of pain
To you, bright star in this ever-spending universe
To you, fighter of a thousand-and-one fights
To you, friend of my heart.
From now on, my head won't look down to a magazine
Rather, it will contemplate the night
And its bright stars,
And so, no more clichés.

முதுபெரும் தமிழ் எழுத்தாளர் ஏ.ஆர்.இராஜாமணி காலமானார் - பேராசிரியர் நாச்சிமுத்து

இன்று ( 13.02.2012) அதி காலை தில்லியில் வாழ்ந்து வந்த முதுபெரும் தமிழ் எழுத்தாளர் ஏ.ஆர்.இராஜாமணி காலமானார்,தனியாகவே வாழ்நாள் முழுதும் வாழ்ந்து வந்த அவர் எல்லா வகையிலும் துன்பம் அனுபவித்து வந்தாலும் மானத்தோடு வாழ்ந்தவர்.அவர் எழுத்திலே ஓடும் நகைச்சுவையும் சீற்றமும் நம்மை வாட்டுவதற்குக் காரணம் அவர் வாழ்வனுபவம்தான்.'வாழத்தெரியாத' அவருக்கு யாராவது உண்டா எனத் தெரியவில்லை.இறந்தபோது சான்றிதழ் வாங்க அவர் தந்தை பெயரைச் சொல்லக்கூடத் தெரிந்த ஆளில்லை.
வடக்குவாசல் பென்னேஸ்வரன் அவரைப் பார்த்துக்கொண்டதோடு அவருக்கு ஈமத்தீயையும் ஊட்டினார். தில்லித் தமிழ்ச் சங்கத்தைத் தன் குடும்பமாகவும் அதன் உறுப்பினர்களைத் தன் உறவினராகவும் அவர் நினைத்திருந்தார்.தில்லித் தமிழ்ச் சங்க அன்பர்களும் அவருடைய சில நண்பர்களும் இறுதிச் சடங்கில் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.தமிழ் எழுத்தால் வாழ்வோம் என்று நினைத்து ஏமாந்தவர்களில் அவர் கடைசி ஆளாக இருக்கட்டும்.இதைப்போல் வாழ்வோர்க்கு உதவ ஏதாவது அறக்கட்டளைகளை மனமுள்ளோரும் பணமுள்ளோரும் நிறுவலாம்.திருக்குறளில் இல்லறத்தான் இயல்புடைய மூவருக்கு உதவுவதோடு துறந்தார்க்கும் துவ்வாதார்க்கும் இறந்தார்க்கும் உதவவேண்டும என்று சொல்லியிருக்கிறார்.அவர்களில் இராஜாமணி கடைசியாகச் சொன்ன பண்புகள் ஒருங்கே கொண்டவர் என்பதனால் அறக்கட்டளைகள் இவர்களைப்போன்றவர்களுக்கு உதவுவதாக அமையவேண்டும்.

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