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On the campus of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) — Pakistan’s premier public university — stands a large, ornate palace with manicured lawns and parked SUVs, protected by menacing guards and dogs. The owner could well have been some Arab sheikh from Dubai but, in fact, this is the newly constructed residence of a former chairman of the Pakistan Senate and a member of the Pakistan People’s Party. It stands among other palatial houses now sprouting over dozens of acres of captured university land

It is painful to know that despite JNUTA’s request, JNU Administration has chosen to continue with its policy of intimidation through letters to colleagues for speaking in public to the students in their own space. In total disregard of democratic practices, the moves by the Administration are aimed at discouraging colleagues from speaking against the covert and overt attempts to alter the progressive admission policy of JNU. The forced changes are not only against the principle of social justice but also in contravention of several Supreme Court Judgments. JNUTA condemns such authoritarian moves of the JNU administration.

A report from Rehan Fazal BBC Hindi

Recording with Anupam Mishra of Gandhi Peace Foundatiion

The Haryana government organized Gita Festival in Kurkshetra with a budget of Rs 100 Crores. This was to celebrate the teachings of Bhagavad Gita. This state funded festival comes in the backdrop of the Modi Sarkar coming to power at the centre. Modi, in his innumerable trips abroad has been gifting Gita to the dignitaries overseas.