Jawaharlal Nehru University is a public research university located in Delhi,India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru,India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and research emphasis on social sciences and applied sciences.
Brinda Karat is an Indian marxist politician,and former member of Rajya Sabha as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member,from 11 April 2005 to 2011 for West Bengal.
Sitaram Yechury is an Indian marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),and a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) since 1992. Previously,he was a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal from 2005 to 2017.
Chandrashekar Prasad,popularly known as Chandu and Comrade Chandrashekhar was a student leader and later an activist affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. He graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru University,and served as the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union for two terms. Prasad played a key role in the development of All India Students Association.
All India Students' Association (AISA) is a left wing student organisation in India. It describes itself as "the voice of the radical students' movement" and is affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation. The association was previously affiliated to the IPF. The association was founded in Allahabad on 9 August 1990 with the merger of several left wing students organisations across India. AISA have organisational presence in the states and union territories of Delhi,Chandigarh,Uttarakhand,Uttar Pradesh,Assam,Uttarakhand,Bihar,Jharkhand,West Bengal,Tripura,etc. Nilasis Bose is the National President of AISA and Prasenjeet Kumar is its National General Secretary.
Sunitha Krishnan is an Indian social activist and chief functionary and co-founder of Prajwala,a non-governmental organization that rescues,rehabilitates and reintegrates sex-trafficked victims into society. She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2016.
The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder,commonly known as the Nirbhaya case,involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka,a neighbourhood in South Delhi. The incident took place when Jyoti Singh,a 22-year-old physiotherapy intern,was beaten,gang-raped,and tortured in a private bus in which she was travelling with her male friend,Avnindra Pratap Pandey. There were six others in the bus,including the driver,all of whom raped the woman and beat her friend. She was rushed to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi for treatment and transferred to Singapore eleven days after the assault,where she succumbed to her injuries 2 days later. The incident generated widespread national and international coverage and was widely condemned,both in India and abroad. Subsequently,public protests against the state and central governments for failing to provide adequate security for women took place in New Delhi,where thousands of protesters clashed with security forces. Similar protests took place in major cities throughout the country. Since Indian law does not allow the press to publish a rape victim's name,the victim was widely known as Nirbhaya,meaning "fearless",and her struggle and death became a symbol of women's resistance to rape around the world.
Nivedita Menon is a writer and a professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi. She previously taught at Lady Shri Ram College and the Department of Political Science at Delhi University.
India's Daughter is a documentary film directed by Leslee Udwin and is part of the BBC's ongoing Storyville series. The film is based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of 23-year-old "Nirbhaya",who was a physiotherapy student. The documentary explores the events of the night of 16 December 2012,the protests which were sparked both nationally and internationally as a result of the assault,and the lives of the men before they committed the attack. The film is told through the use of reconstructed footage and interviews with those involved in the case,including the defence lawyers,psychiatrists,and one of the rapists.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union or JNUSU is a students' union at Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.
Kanhaiya Kumar is an Indian political activist who served as the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union and leader of the All India Students Federation (AISF). He served as National Executive Council member of Communist Party of India. He joined Indian National Congress on 28 September 2021.
Bwizamani Singh,who was also mistakenly identified as Dwijamani Singh,,was an Indian camera operator for the Prime News channel in northeast India. He was shot dead by police while covering a protest of recent sexual violence against women in India.
On 9 February 2016,some students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) held a protest on their campus against the capital punishment meted out to the 2001 Indian Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru,and Kashmiri separatist Maqbool Bhat. The organizers of the event were former members of the Democratic Students' Union (DSU). The event was held despite the university administration withdrawing permission for the event shortly before it was due to begin,due to protests by members of the student union of ABVP. The event saw clashes between various student groups. A video was circulated by Indian news channel Zee news in which a small group of individuals,whom a later investigation described as outsiders to the university wearing masks,shouted "anti-India" slogans. The slogans were criticized by many individuals,including political leaders and students of JNU.
Shehla Rashid Shora is an Indian human rights activist who has pursued her Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was vice-president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) in 2015–16 and was a member of the All India Students Association (AISA). She rose to prominence whilst leading the student agitation calling for the release for Kanhaiya Kumar,Umar Khalid and others who were arrested on charges of sedition in February 2016 for participating and organizing sloganeering in JNU.
On 5 January 2020,more than 50 masked people armed with rods,sticks and acid attacked the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi,and injured more than 39 students and teachers. Many students received serious injuries. Professors who tried to intervene and protect the students,as well as ambulances carrying injured individuals,were attacked. Eyewitnesses stated that police within the campus did not intervene to stop the mob. After attacking residents of the university campus for three hours,the mob escaped;none of its members was arrested or detained. All 36 students who were injured and admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi (AIIMS) were discharged within 24 hours.
Dr. Vijoo Krishnan is an Indian peasant leader,writer on Agrarian Issues and General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha. He is a central committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is also part of the six-member central secretariat of CPI(M). He is one of the key organiser of Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan.
Dipsita Dhar is an Indian politician and student activist. She is the All India Joint Secretary of Students' Federation of India. She was the CPI(M) candidate from Bally constituency for 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.
Aparajitha Raja is an Indian politician who was the national leader of the All India Students’Federation (AISF). She is currently serving as a National Council member of All India Youth Federation. She is the daughter of D. Raja,the Communist Party of India’s (CPI) General Secretary,and Annie Raja,the General Secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women.
Aishe Ghosh is an Indian politician and student activist. She is the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union and is a member of the Students' Federation of India. She was also the CPI(M) candidate from Jamuria constituency for 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and lost to Hareram Singh.
All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA) is a women's organisation committed to achieving equality and women's emancipation. It has an organizational presence in 21 states in India. It was founded in 1991 as a national level mass organisation of women. AIPWA is the women's wing of the CPIML Liberation.
