[Reader-list] Geelani exhibition

[Shivam Vij]

Dear all: 

Coverage of this in the press has been woefully inadequate. The people
doing the exhibition are the All India Defence Committee for SAR
Geelani. The posters were really very well made and would embarass
even the ABVP activists who got the exhibition stalled by just
shouting a few slogans to establish that they could disrupt la and
order, and the VC got a good excuse. I saw the exhibition held
privately in the on-campus residence of a teacher at St. Stephen's. -
Shivam


  Protests in DU against 'censorship'

  TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2004 10:09:52 PM ]
  NEW DELHI: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=814298


Delhi University forum for democracy organised a march in the north
Campus on Friday to protest against the way in which the university
had forced cancellation of a poster exhibition 'Lies of our Times' and
a seminar to be addressed by teachers of the University.

They demanded that the V-C order revocation of the circular stopping
such activity and ensure that the events were held in a free
atmosphere. A memorandum in this regard was submitted to the V-C which
was signed by 1,159 members of the university.

Hundreds of students and teachers participated in the march to express
their outrage at the attempt by the authorities to suppress democratic
activity. "This has never happened before. It is unprecedented in the
history of the university that a peaceful exhibition has been
stopped," said Svati Joshi, convenor.