His Holiness Dalai Lama had delivered a lecture on the topic of ‘Secular Ethics’ in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on 14th August, 2017. Following is the transcription of that lecture- I always used to feel that the ancient Indian knowledge about emotions is not only ancient one but…
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TISS Student Union and Student Councils Letter on firm continuation of Strike
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TISS Guwahati Alumni Unites Against Institutional Murder of Social Justice
Rollback Regressive Change in Financial Assistance Mechanism for Socially Marginalized Students Demand for White Paper on Financial Statements under Different Heads Guwahati | February 22, 2018: We, the Alumni, of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati stand united with the ongoing protest happening across all campuses of TISS against any…
TISS Student’s Strike against withdrawl of GoI scholarship: reminds their Professors and Administration of TISS culture?
Press Release by Protestors 21st February 2018 TISS, Mumbai observes 100% university strike against privatisation of higher education and withdrawal of financial aid to SC-ST-OBC(NC) students TISS students union gave a call for university strike on 21st February 2018 against the recent notification of TISS admin to withdraw financial…
Kuffir Nalgundwar and Yogendra Yadav at Sameeksha in TISS
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Daily wage labourer to University: Monika from Ghanaur, Punjabi university, Patiala
Dr. Teginder Head of the Department of Political Science, Ghanaur College, Punjabi University, Patiala Caste conflict is peculiar to the Indian society since ages. Even after social, cultural, scientific and technological advancements, it remains to be as dominant as in the times before. Rohith Vemula, a dalit student, whose journey…
Gopal Guru: Getting bored is the negative condition to think
Jan 14 2017, TISS, Mumbai: In the annual event of School of Media and Culture Studies, Frames of Reference, Gopla Guru as a keynote speaker talked on Compression of Time and Space in the condition of Globalization. The theme of this year of the event was Neoliberalising Cultures: Media. Markets….
Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) ranking in NIRF
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has declared the university ranking for the year 2017, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore comes first and Jawaharlal Nehru University comes second on the list of its ranking. From Gujarat model, only two universities are able to make their room under the ranking of 100,…
On Demonetisation: Views of University students
Aniruddha Jena Mphil student, Central university Koraput, Odisha The sole purpose behind demonetisation was to curve the menace of black money and corruption and to check the counterfeiting of currency notes. But I am bit sceptical about this logic that while only 4-5% black money and corruption takes place in…
Bhagat Singh: Manifesto of Naujawan Bharat Sabha
Bhagat Singh & Bhagawati Charan Vohra 06.04.1928 YOUNG COMRADES, Our country is passing through a chaos. There is mutual distrust and despair prevailing everywhere. The great leaders have lost faith in the cause and most of them no more enjoy the confidence of the masses. There is no programme and…
Remembering Occupy Hong Kong – reflections of a student protest organizer in Umbrella Movement
Tommy Cheung (On the first anniversary of the start of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, student organizer Tommy Cheung, a 21 year-old studying at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reflects on the remarkable events of last year, the role young people played and what the future holds for Hong Kong.)…
TISShhh : Modi ji will get angry – The Das of Capital
August Print Issue The stage was set to re-invent pedagogy. To control thought crime, to turn student into prisoners. Prisoners of authority. The intoxicated one. Intoxicated by fear of government’s surveillance of IB (Intelligence Bureau) in campus. For the first time in the history of TISS orientation, a session for…
DUTA protest in Delhi against the API system
CAN THE CANDLE FLAME LIT UP THE ADMINISTRATION? With bandage in ankle and occasionally moving between wheel chair and walking on stick, the spirit of neither Delhi University teachers association (DUTA) president Nandita Narain, nor that of DUTA seemed fazed as DUTA protest entered its 26th day starting from 24th…
Dileep Ranjekar at TISS convocation : We need radical reform not Lipapoti
6 May 2016, Mumbai : Dileep Ranjekar (Co-CEO) has been an integral part of the Azim Premji Foundation, right from its inception in 2001. He addressed TISS M.A students in the 76th convocation. He stressed that issues are systematic and structural issues should be radically reformed. System does not need…
Raghuram Rajan : Word matters and so does intent
(Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor-Reserve Bank of India – April 20, 2016 – at the 12th NIBM Convocation, Pune) Congratulations to the graduating class, to their professors, and to their proud parents, siblings and friends. If you are typical, you are happy to be leaving university and embarking on a new…
Seminar on Police Reforms & Human Rights at GLC
On 10th of December, 2015 as the world celebrated Human Rights Day, The Government Law College Mumbai, along with Hurt Foundation and the centre for Criminology and Justice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, organized a seminar on ‘Police Reforms and Human Rights’.
Cut.in Student Film Festival (2015)
Cut.In, the annual student’s film festival (2015) of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, School of Media and Cultural Studies (SMCS) celebrated its 8th year, with exuberance and zest. Young and fresh in its outlook, this year the festival received close to 119 entries, from students of diploma, graduate and…
Dharavi : Rally against Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder attacked by R.S.S
A rally organised by residents of Dharavi against Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder were allegedly attacked by R.S.S in the evening around 7p.m.
#OccupyUGC : Access to higher education
Over the last few days the country has seen one of the largest student uprisings in its recent history. UGC’s decision to scrap the non – NET scholarship, as declared on 20th October 2015, after a UGC meeting dated October 7, 2015, served as a tipping point for the simmering unrest within this student community, which has long been struggling under the assault of rising tuition fees and cost of education, reckless semesterization program at undergraduate level and deteriorating quality of public higher education due to fund cuts and a plethora of market oriented/vocational courses taking advantage of job insecurity.
Birsa Munda : Silence of the Governors
A paradox of tribals migrating to cities: Workers from Central India and as Students from North-East
Students on the Road: #OccupyUGC #FeesMustFall #MillionStudentMarch
The issue of tuition fees and university education seems to go on and on, with new concerns or proposals being brought to the public’s attention on a regular basis. This last couple of months saw the latest in a series of student protests regarding higher education, with thousands of students taking to the streets , be it in India or South Africa, or United States of America, or London, to sum up across the globe, to express their opposition not only to higher fees but also to the so-called ‘privatisation’ of universities.
Gadha Kahinke! Academic Modernity
No degree could eradicate caste, especially from the premier academic institutes of India, because they represent the same meritocracy structure, which pronounces one gadha. A gadha who is inefficient to work and apply brains on jobs which has no meaning, but is packed with layers of growth and advancement to…