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…
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Love, Academia and Prisons: Reality at the Gates
Jan 2017 Print Issue जिंदगी ख्वाब है, ख्वाब में, झूट है क्या, और भला सच है क्या सब सच है .. दिल ने हमसे जो कहा, हमने वैसा ही किया फिर कभी फुर्सत से सोचेंगे बुरा था या भला .. Life is dream, In dream, What is Lie? And even…
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.)…
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…
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…