[Reader-list] Dont let the Hindu right take over our universities!!

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Poor Aarti. Even the GoI's Ramdoss banned public smoking.

I sympathise with you.

It takes courage lady, to write thesis on a non-issue. You did it!! :-)

Always
Aditya Raj Kaul

On 11/6/08, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> instead the leftist and the islamists shud take over.
>
> if leftist were lesser goons,how else did they ensure screening
> fiction movie of sanju kaka against abvp wishes.
>
> doesn't that mean leftist take command over goons and are bigger goons.
>
> Pawan
> I like woman who smoke,why double standards in smoking community
>
>
> On 11/6/08, Aarti Sethi <aarti.sethi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > As someone who done a large part of my education in DU and JNU I am
> > more and more distressed at the way in which our universities are
> > becoming locked in the strangehold of the facist Hindu right. The
> > incident which friends have reported is not new, as Sanjay mentions.
> > It is one more shameful incident in the long list of assaults that are
> > becoming routine on democratic spaces and voices. What is a university
> > for if not to discuss matters that affect us all in a free and
> > non-threatening atmosphere? Perhaps this is exactly what the right
> > fears. That even as their tentacles spread rapidly through our polity,
> > the university still stands as  space where its violent fascist vision
> > of this country is challenged, resisted, questioned, fought. last year
> > the ABVP created mayhem on the night of the presidential speeches in
> > JNU. They attacked a dalit candidate, broke down the stage, and
> > injured students watching the debates. The police had to be called in.
> > Last year we screened Sanjay's film in JNU. A week before the
> > screening the ABVP tried to stop the event by threatening violence. It
> > was only because a large number of students and the left mobilized
> > that they were dissuaded, and the event took place. When the first
> > queer collective in JNU - Anjuman- had tehir first public meeting in
> > JNU three years ago, the ABVP again attacked students for no reason
> > except that for these bigots same-sex love is against their perverse
> > definition of "indian" culture. How long will we let them hold us to
> > ransom? How long will this be allowed to continue?
> >
> >  The ABVP make the campus unsafe for everyone who studies there. The
> > ABVP lumpens are routinely involved in sexual harassment cases - I was
> > stalked for 6 months by an ABVP goon when I was an M.A student in Arts
> > faculty. A friend and I were routinely accosted in the lawns by the
> > self-styled protectors of "indian" culture because we were women
> > smoking in public. And I promise you, many women have far worse
> > stories to share.
> >
> > I urge everyone to come in large numbers tomorrow and insist that the
> > authorities take immediate action against those responsible. As DUSU
> > president Nupur Sharma has a moral responsibility to ensure that
> > action is taken against the goons from her own party who are
> > responsible for today's incident.
> >
> > In solidarity
> > Aarti
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