As students all across India are fighting the central government's nefarious attempts to curtail their political freedom, Bodhi Commons is republishing the Emergency Files, a series of pamphlets brought out by the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, during the period of the Emergency (1975-77). This is the third part of the series.
As students all across India are fighting the central government's nefarious attempts to curtail their political freedom, Bodhi Commons is republishing the Emergency Files, a series of pamphlets brought out by the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, during the period of the Emergency (1975-77). This is the second part of the series. The first part can be read here.
On 19th October 2015, 11 students of Hyderabad’s English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U) - a central university that comes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India - were given show-cause notices for staging a democratic protest. The students were demanding Students’ Union Elections and were denouncing the undemocratic and reproachful attitude of the administration towards affairs concerning students’ day to day lives.