Why Protests at AMU take a Rightward Shift?

The Muslim Right Wing assertion both in 1981 and the current protest (August 2025) is unmistakable. The remedy still remains an administrative re-shuffle of the many teacher-administrators sticking to their respective offices since ages. Moreover,  a strong assertion of the secularists against the communal reactionaries taking over the current student agitation, is the most urgent necessity at the moment.

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Remembering Yashpal, the Hindi writer who remained true to revolution throughout life

Yashpal died on 26 December 1976 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. He was working on the fourth volume of his book ‘Sinhavalokan’, which was written on the memories of his revolutionary movement. With his passing, a modern Marxist, a very conscious writer, was lost, which Hindi produced in those difficult days, he was the only writer who picked up the pen in the difficult times when there was a wave of individualism and alienation everywhere.

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