Its eye on the UP Assembly elections, the Centre is going to package the reservation for backward muslims being planned out of the 27 per cent OBC quota as part of a series of reservation measures, covering a large bracket of beneficiaries. Apart from designating the quota for muslims as part of a larger reservation for “minorities”, the UPA government is planning to promise a quota for “the most backward”...
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Rahul Gandhi meets UP clerics on RTE by Manjari Mishra
A major sticking point between the Centre and All India muslim Personal Law Board seemed set for a resolution with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi leaning towards keeping madrassas out of the Right to Education following a meeting with the board president,Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi, here on Sunday. Maulana Nadvi is also the rector of Nadwatul Ulema, a leading Islamic seminary. This is Congress's second major outreach to muslims in recent...
More »Swamy preaches tolerance after Harvard drops him for rant by Charu Sudan Kasturi
Harvard University has dumped former union minister and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy from its 2012 summer school faculty after protests from teachers and students over an allegedly anti-muslim opinion article Swamy wrote for an Indian newspaper earlier this year. "Harvard has established a principal that the person teaching there is accountable to whatever he writes elsewhere is a not good for them," Swamy said reacting to the university's action. Only dangerous...
More »AMU women undergrads may get library access by Chinki Sinha
Thousands of undergraduate women students of Aligarh muslim University (AMU) may finally be able to access the university library — after a struggle spanning several decades. While students enrolled in professional courses are allowed to use the resources of the Maulana Azad Library (MAL), which is one of the best libraries in the country, those in non-professional courses can’t go past the MAL gates. Union HRD Minister Kabil Sibal on Wednesday assured...
More »Let a Thousand Ramayanas Bloom by Bharati Jaganathan
The arbitrary deletion of A.K. Ramanujan’s ‘Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation’ from the syllabus of a concurrent course taught by the History Department by the Academic Council of the University of Delhi has understandably sparked off a major debate. The prehistory of this step is to be traced to early 2008 when ABVP activists attacked and vandalised the office of the History Department in the...
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