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G 9 Faculties G 37 Departments G 27 Centres of Excellence and Research G 231 Courses G 642 Faculty Members G Over 15,000 Undergraduate, Post-Graduate and Diploma/Certificate Students Contents Maulana Mohamed Ali ‘Jauhar’ Founder, Jamia Millia Islamia

From the Vice-Chancellor

IN FOCUS Jamia; Gerda Philipsborne’s contribution to the school ...... 20 Country experts of Jamia s I sit down to pen my thoughts and reflections on these past three months, I realise that it The University develops a series of area study has been an academically-rich period for us at Jamia. There has been a flurry of activities, programmes to develop a cadre of experts who can Many hats, one mission Awith a number of conferences, seminars, talks, festivals and competitions dotting these past assist in policy making ...... 4 Mujeeb Rizvi’s association with Jamia since its months at Jamia. The new premises of the Centre for North-Eastern Studies and Policy Research days of struggle ...... 22 were inaugurated by the Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Pallam Raju. We, at Jamia, COURSE OF ACTION have been engaged in the systematic study of the North-East for some time now and remain commit - Nano material, big dreams Also ted to that end. The Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ON CAMPUS Besides, the newly-instituted Human Rights Cell at Jamia too has taken off the ground and has set at Jamia creates infrastructure for pathbreaking Happenings in Jamia ...... 7 important tasks for itself, which, I am sure, it will fulfil in days to come. research ...... 13 The Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Jamia has been making strides in its FACULTY PROFILE STUDENT ZONE research that is sure to become a flagship programme for the University in years to come. Faculty publications...... 23 The India factor There have been a number of key conferences and seminars organised by the Faculty of Architec - Where does a degree from India figure in the ture, Department of Urdu, Department of Islamic Studies, the Centre for Information Technology and career of an international student? ...... 15 Gulf Studies Programme, among others. We also had a number of important visitors from India and abroad, who shared their expertise with us. Among these were India observer Prof Paul Brass, NASA It pays to be attentive scientist Prof Hashima Hasan and a delegation of faculty and students from the Forman Christian Zakir Hussain’s photography award; Maisara College, Lahore. Khan’s literary quest; MCRC students’ presence at IFFI ...... 18 Besides academic engagements, Jamia has been forging ahead in the field of sports too. There was great enthusiasm around Jamia’s T-20 cricket team. It reached a frenzy when Jamia played in the PAGE OUT OF THE PAST finals of the T-20 Toyota University Cricket Championship. Jamia’s football team exceeded itself and The footprints of women won the Dr Zakir Husain Memorial Football competition. Jamia also organised its first inter-univer - Turkish woman leader Halide Edib’s impression of sity festival ‘Miraas’, which was a huge success.

As the semester comes to a close, the students are preparing for their end-semester examinations. The students in the annual mode are already geared for their year-end examinations. I wish them all the success. Besides, we look forward to the next session, when we will have new students join Jamia. I am sure the coming academic year will be as intellectually stimulating as the previous one.

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Running these programmes are individuals drawn Husain Haqqani. Prof Behera says that the research from both academia and the corridors of diplomacy. scholars have made use of these visits to interview TCA Rangachari, the Director of the Academy of In - the Pakistani scholars and incorporate the inputs into ternational Studies (AIS), served as India’s ambassa - their dissertations. “The internet is a wonderful dor to France, Germany and Algeria, and developed source of information and knowledge,” he says an expertise on China. Zikrur Rahman spent 25 years On the other hand is China, about which Dr Ravni as a diplomat in the Arab world, and was the Indian Thakur says, “It’s overstudied. There is excellent ambassador to Palestine. It was with his deep under - western academic material available.” About the field standing of the politics, social and tribal structures in visits, she says that through the linkages she has de - the Arab world that he started the India Arab Cul - veloped in China, the programme is entering into tural Centre at Jamia. MOUs with Chinese universities to facilitate the On the other hand are academics who have spent process of Jamia students pursuing research there. their entire careers on research. Dr Shri Prakash, Professor at the AIS, has done his MPhil from Jawa - The Programmes harlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and PhD from Cambridge, and has published extensively on Pakistan Studies Programme trade and globalisation, his area of specialisation. Dr The Programme, set up in 2004 and recognised by Rashmi Doraiswamy, Coordinator of the Central Asia the UGC in 2005, aims to promote greater under - Programme, did her research in Russian language standing among scholars about Pakistan through ex - and literature at JNU. Her writings on literature and tensive research work on the country’s history, cinema have been published in prestigious Indian sociology, culture, literature, contemporary politics, Window to the world: Leading scholars from Pakistan during a conference organised by the Academy of and foreign publications. She was the recipient of the trade and economics, geopolitics, and security and International Studies in Jamia National Award for the Best Film Critic in 1995. Prof foreign policy. Ajay Darshan Behera, the coordinator of the Pakistan Dr Mathew Joseph C, who teaches at the PSP, says Studies Programme, did his PhD in International the objective is to prepare indigenous expertise on Studies at JNU. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Pakistan, since foreign service officials rely heavily on the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Dr Ravni western expertise, which has been written from Country experts Thakur, who has been invited from the University of a western perspective, to serve western interests. For Delhi (DU) to set up the China Study Programme at that matter, this is the driving force in all area-study Jamia, has done her PhD from Leiden University. programmes. The Programme is actively engaged in She is a Professor of Chinese Studies at the Depart - publishing research findings through its publications, ment of East Asian Studies, DU. networking with similar institutions engaged in the of JAMIA How are these programmes facilitating research study of Pakistan, and organising reciprocal visits of work in the departments? Field work and access to scholars, writers and diplomats. Jamia endeavours to prepare a cadre of researchers who can help the country frame literature are, after all, critical to successful research. correct policies with respect to our neighbours and other nations Each centre and each programme has its own set of Afghanistan Studies Programme challenges, and it’s solving them in its own The programme will encourage interdisciplinary re - unique way. search focussing on the history, sociology, contem - xistence in a globalised world puts new something which foreign service officials are perhaps The biggest challenge is before the Pakistan Stud - porary politics, economics, geopolitics, security, demands on us to understand the differ - not adept at doing. ies Programme, where travel by PhD students to Pak - foreign policy and also languages of Afghanistan. The ent geographical regions, and countries, Najeeb Jung, Vice Chancellor, Jamia, says that the istan is practically ruled out. But as Prof Behera says, activities of the programme are designed to stimulate Ein greater depth. Understanding another pursuit is purely scholarly. “Our idea is that the “We subvert this problem by engaging as many schol - debate in India on the politics, society, and econom - nation cannot just be from a defence or geopolitical neighbours are extremely critical to India, for us to ars and experts as possible from Pakistan, by inviting ics of Afghanistan. While the programme structure is perspective. If we are to aspire for better engagement understand. Our aim is to provide the country- them to Jamia.” Through a series of seminars, the still being developed, a few talks have already been with, say, China or Uzbekistan, it is imperative that expertise to the Government and think tanks on the PSP has invited the who’s who of Pakistan’s intelli - organised under its banner – the most recent being we understand the psyche of that country’s populace, strength of research our scholars will be doing.” gentsia, diplomacy and literary world to Jamia, in - a talk by Deputy Ambassador of Afghanistan in India, for which an understanding of its history, culture, be - The University is engaged in fostering country- cluding the grandson of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan M Ashraf Haidari, on ‘Afghanistan: Transition, Peace liefs, art and literature, and media is a must. With specific research at various levels – through its MPhil Asfandyar Wali Khan; the producer of Ramchand Prospects and Regional Stability’. this realisation, Jamia Millia Islamia has embarked and PhD programmes, through the books, mono - Pakistani, Javed Jabbar; academics like Farzana upon a series of country-specific study programmes graphs and papers its faculty are publishing, through Sheikh, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Ayesha Siddiqa; the current Bangladesh Studies Programme to prepare a cadre of experts who would fulfil the re - specific projects that the faculty are involved in, and Pakistani Ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman; The Bangladesh Studies Programme was formally in - search needs of the Government and think tanks, through a series of seminars and conferences. and more recently, the former Ambassador to the US, augurated in March 2009 by Nobel Laureate Profes -

sions; producing documentation of material available on various aspects of Central Asia; and running re - search programmes. Already, scholars are research - ‘Islam shuns violence’ ing aspects like media in Central Asia, reform movements in Central Asia, migration and Minister E Ahamed says Islam is compatible with the modern universal values of life, social media. calls modernity a false premise The Gulf Studies Programme The India Arab Cultural Centre (IACC) has emerged hese days it has become fashionable to as a centre of excellence for generation of knowledge say that Islam is in danger and is out - on Arab history, polity, economy, society and culture, dated. I would disagree with them. In the and on India-Arab relations. It has established link - Twords of Nursi, Islam is like the inextin - ages with a number of organisations to further India- guishable sun. It will always shine and give life and Arab civilisational dialogue, including the King Abdul light to all. However, this life and light is not for Aziz Foundation, Riyadh; Institute of Diplomatic those who … chose darkness over light.” Studies, Riyadh; Gulf Studies Centre, Exeter Univer - E Ahamed, Minister of State for External Af - sity, UK; the Gulf Research Centre, fairs, Government of India, said this at Jamia Mil - Understanding the Arabs: Minister of State for External Cambridge; and The Centre for Modern Orient, Ger - lia Islamia on February 7. He was delivering the Affairs E Ahamed at an exhibition at the India Arab many. It has been designated by King Abdul Aziz Presidential remarks at a three-day conference on Cultural Centre Foundation as the nodal agency for its activities in ‘Islam and Modernity: The Perspective of Bediuz - South Asia. Among the projects it has embarked zaman Said Nursi’, organised by Zakir Husain In - sor Muhammad Yunus, former Managing Director of upon is translation of important Indian works into stitute of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, in Grameen Bank, Bangladesh. Professor Veena Sikri, Arabic, and vice-versa. collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Science Faith in the Faith: Ministers E Ahamed (third from left); K Rahman Khan (fifth from left) and Tariq Anwar who holds the Ford Foundation endowed Chair at The Centre’s Gulf Studies Programme is a dedi - and Culture, Turkey . (extreme right) with other dignitaries on the occasion Jamia, heads the Bangladesh Studies Programme. cated research unit for knowledge generation and To those who are spreading Islamophobia, he dissemination, and runs PhD programmes in Gulf said, “Their Islamophobia will never win. Islam has may seem outdated tomorrow. Inspite of all the China Studies Programme Studies to prepare a cadre of experts on the Arab nothing to do with it. Islam is a peaceful doctrine technological advances that the human race will This UGC sanctioned programme started by the AIS region. The Centre is also offering a PG Diploma in and there is no place for violence in it. “If anyone make, there are certain human values which are will focus on the study of China, its internal dynamics Iranology. killed an innocent person, it will be as if he killed constant. Which are transcendental in nature. and external relations. Dr Ravni Thakur says the pro - the whole mankind. And if anyone saved a life, it Which form the core of human value system. We gramme will take up all facets of contemporary West Asia Studies will be as if he saved the life of whole mankind.” must judge Islam vis-a-vis these core values.” China. “While India’s approach to China is domi - The Centre for West Asian Studies was inaugurated Addressing the question being raised in the con - Tariq Anwar, Minister of State for Agriculture nated by Sino-Indian relations, we need experts who in 2005 by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The ference, as to whether modernity and Islam can co - and Food Processing Industries, was the chief understand the internal dynamics of China.” Now MPhil programme at the Centre takes up various as - exist, He said, “The concept of modernity itself is a guest, while K Rahman Khan, Union Minister for being developed, it will offer Chinese language as a pects of the Arab world and West Asia, from films and wrong premise to start with. What is modern today Minority Affairs, inaugurated the seminar. mandatory course. literature to the Arab-Israel conflict and relationships with the US. At the PhD level, research scholars have Central Asia taken up such themes as ‘Energy Security and West The programme titled ‘Central Asia and its Neigh - Asia’, ‘Islam and Discourse on Democracy in West Human Rights Cell at Jamia bourhoods: Past Ties and Future Relations’ was Asia’ and ‘New Media Technology in the Arab World started in 2007, following UGC approval. It’s of high and its Impact on Society’. amia Millia Islamia has established a Human programmes i) clinical programmes ii) research relevance because a) the countries that emerged out Rights Cell on its campus, which shall work programmes and iii) public programmes. of the Soviet Union are still evolving a new identity CELAS Jon an on-going basis to advance the cause of Clinical programmes: The cell will conduct on- for themselves by ‘derussifying’ and b) because the The Centre for European and Latin American Studies human rights and justice in India. the-ground investigations of human rights abuses, region is geopolitically important to the world and is (CELAS) has launched MPhils in European Studies Typical activities shall include the development find documents, and advocate before courts, fed - also energy rich, with the superpowers of the world and Latin American Studies. Prof Sonya Surabhi and utilisation of web-based technologies to ad - eral, state and local governments, and the media. taking keen interest in its resources. But coordinator Gupta, the Founder-Director of the Centre, says: “The vance human rights; conferences, roundtable dis - Research programmes: Various centres and Dr Rashmi Doraiswamy says the programme will not idea behind launching the Centre was to have a core cussions, and speakers’ series focused on departments at Jamia Millia Islamia could jointly just focus on polity and economy, but also on culture group of researchers working on Latin America as a developing a breakthrough understanding of par - conduct research, training and mentorship to ex - and society. region. The focus of the course is not just interna - ticular human rights challenges; and field research amine various facets of human rights. Among the activities of the Centre are: Publishing tional politics and trade relations, but an understand - in conflict and post-conflict societies. Public programmes: There will be regular sem - monographs; organising seminars and panel discus - ing of the region’s societies and cultures.” The Cell’s core mission would include three inars, workshops, lectures and film screenings.

North-eastern focus The T-20 moment

Union HRD Minister inaugurates the new premises of the Centre for North-Eastern Studies Jamia reaches the final of Toyota University Cricket Championship; the event, with the help of and Policy Research; lauds the Centre for mainstreaming the region’s issues MHRD, NDTV, AIU and BCCI, generates great enthusiasm among students

nion Minister for Human Resource Development M Pallam Raju recently amia Millia Islamia’s cricket team reached inaugurated the new premises of the the final of the Toyota University Cricket Ufour-year-old Centre for North-East - Championship (UCC) in the T20 format. In ern Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Jthe final played on March 11, the ‘Northern Islamia. Raju expressed happiness at the Central Stars’ of Jamia lost to ‘Southern Champs’ of Jain University trying to mainstream the social and University, Bengaluru, by two runs. political issues that the people of North-east face. The Championship was an endeavour of the The Centre will have a rich documentation cen - Ministry of Human Resource Development, Gov - tre, where films, music and other cultural reference ernment of India, and TV channel NDTV to encour - materials of the region would be available under age cricket at the University level. The initiative is one roof. The Centre also plans to expand its faculty backed by the Association of Indian Universities and have a research programme on each state. (AIU) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India Besides offering research programmes, the Cen - (BCCI) and also has the support of Bollywood su - tre plans to engage the public on pressing issues of perstar Shah Rukh Khan. the region through a series of seminars. The Centre An extension of the all-India inter-university Ro - has already organised seminars on the situation in hinton Baria Tournament, TUCC featured the top An opening to the North-east: Jamia VC Najeeb Jung (sec - ond from left), HRD Minister M Pallam Raju (centre) and Assam and the role of the North-east in the Inde - eight university teams for the T20 league and the Centre Director Sanjoy Hazarika (right) pendence Movement, among others. Jamia team was among them. Encouraging the players at the Jamia Sports Complex during the championship were ministers Salman Khurshid and Shashi Tharoor. During the final match saw Union Minister Kapil Sibal, and A perfect pitch: (Top) Union Minister Kapil Sibal (second ‘Terrorism is our problem’ from left) and cricketer Kapil Dev (third from left) at the cricket stars Kapil Dev, Virender Sehwag and Ma - final match; (Above) Northern Stars of Jamia after win - hela Jayawardene (of Sri Lanka). ning their first match Senior Pakistani diplomat Husain Haqqani calls upon India, Pakistan to discard the old prism

ndia looks at Pakistan through the prism of The biggest problem emanating from military Partition, while Pakistan views India through rule, he said, had been the nurturing of Jehadi Technology pervdades learning Ithe prism of existential threat. But if US and groups by the authoritarian regime, he rued, and Canada, Germany and France can learn to co-exist added, “The monsters created for the region are de - despite old disputes, so can India and Pakistan, felt vouring more Pakistanis.” he FTK-Centre for Information Technology tial growth of knowledge, financing and quality of former Pakistan ambassador to the US, Husain Referring to the treatment meted to him in Pak - T(FTK-CIT), Jamia Millia Islamia, education, shortage of skilled faculty, constraints Haqqani. He was speaking on the theme ‘Pakistan’s istan, he said, “Mature nations do not define people organised a workshop on ‘Modernisation of Learn - of time and space, etc. Prof Khan also briefly dis - Democracy: Vision and Reality’, an event organised with different opinions as being disloyal to State.” ing Environment in Higher Education’ on January cussed the growth of ICT in Jamia, particularly by the Academy of Third World Studies. He repeated what many Pakistani speakers have 18-19, 2013. during the last three years, which included 1 Gbps While lauding Indian success in democracy, he said before – that there had been more terror at - The workshop was inaugurated by Prof SM Internet bandwidth from National Knowledge Net - noted, “We were not so lucky.” He said he was not tacks inside Pakistan than India, and said, “Terror - Rashid, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, JMI, and was work (NKN), upgradation of MIS servers, expan - opposed to the army, but he wanted that the army ism is our problem. It is for us to solve this problem attended by the Deans, Heads of the Departments, sion of the campus-wide network with 6,500 plus should focus on defending frontiers rather than through a democratic process.” Directors of Centres and faculty members of the nodes, and a new dynamic portal of the University. dictating policies inside the country. He also While he criticised the judiciary for addressing University. During the various technical sessions, themes lamented that the political discourse in his country issues which do not fall in its purview, he reposed Prof Zahid H Khan, Honorary Director, FTK- like ‘Google Apps – Tools for Academic Coordina - had been made narrow because of an authoritarian great faith in people’s discretion, and said, “The CIT, and chairperson of the workshop, discussed tion and Collaboration’, ‘Content Management Sys - legacy. “It’s the security establishment which is de - only guides of democracy are people, not judges, the 21st century challenges of higher education like tem and Virtual Classrooms’, ‘Google Apps’ and ciding what is national interest.” not generals, and not opinionated journalists.” increasing demand for higher education, exponen - ‘Adobe Connect’ were taken up.

Architecture for masses Cycle to spread A Space ‘probe’ at Jamia A seminar by the Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics takes up the issue of Master Plan awareness The FTK-CeNTre for Information Technology and the Centre for Theoretical Physics, Architecture Pedagogy, Building Construction, Ekis - Jamia organises a cycle expedition to spread the jamia Millia Islamia, jointly organised a talk message ‘Save Water Save Earth’ tics, Medical Architecture, Recreational Architecture by Dr hashima hasan, Programme Scien - and Urban Regeneration. The seminar aimed to de - tist, james Webb Space Telescope (jWST), velop a better understanding of these emerging dis - and education and Public Outreach Lead for ciplines uniquely offered by Jamia. astrophysics at National aeronautics and Present at the event were personalities such as SS Space administration (NaSa). Yadav, Commissioner, East Delhi Municipal Corpo - In her role as Programme Scientist, ration; Prof Jamal H Ansari, eminent planner and ed - Dr hasan is responsible for monitoring and ucator; and Prof AGK Menon, architect and managing the science programme for the academic. Prof Menon talked about the problems Webb Telescope. faced during the formation and implementation of Dr hasan has been the programme sci - the Master Plan of Delhi. He also discussed how the entist for many of NaSa missions, such as present Master Plan was an improvement as com - A Himalayan responsibility: Members of the cycling expediti - the Wide-field Infrared Survey explorer, grav - tion, who cycled down from Himachal Pradesh pared to its predecessors. ity and extreme Magnetism SMeX (geMS), Students who had won awards in different amia Millia Islamia organised a cycle expedition to spread Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared as - ‘Building blocks’ of a better India: Panelists at the national and international competitions were the message ‘Save Water Save Earth’. The rally was organ - tronomy, hubble Space Telescope, explorer seminar on Architecture for Masses honoured by the Pro-VC SM Rashid. ised in association with NSS, NCC and Ministry of Youth Programme and more. The Faculty also organised an exhibition showcas - JAffairs and Sports with the support of the Directorate of The jWST Mission, whose launch is he Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics ing work of the students of BArch and MArch in the Youth Services & Sports, Government of Himachal Pradesh. The scheduled in 2018, is an orbiting infrared hosted the Fifth National Seminar on ‘Ar - construction yard. Entries of Jamia students in rally was flagged off by Veer Bhadra Singh, Chief Minister, Hi - observatory that will complement and ex - chitecture for Masses’ on February 13-14, national competitions in the past year were displayed, machal Pradesh, on February 20 and received by Nita Chowdhury, tend the discoveries of the hubble Space T2013. The focus of the AFM this year was as were thesis works from the session 2012-13 and Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage on themes based on the six Masters’ courses offered the studio work done by the six streams of MArch and India, at Jamia on February 27. and greatly improved sensitivity. The longer by the Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics, namely BArch. A group of 26 students (20 boys and 6 girls) and 13 staff mem - wavelengths enable the Webb telescope to bers participated in the rally, covering 452 km through Himachal look much closer to the beginning of time Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. The rally was led by and to hunt for the unobserved formation of Major (Dr) NU Khan, Programme Coordinator NSS & NCC Officer the first galaxies, as well as look inside dust VC on board Why the Gulf is and Professor-HRM, Department of Social work. Dr Abid Husain, clouds where stars and planetary systems Programme Officer, NSS, and Assistant Director, Centre for Dis - are forming today. Najeeb juNg, Vice Chancellor, tance and Open Learning, Jamia, coordinated the event. jamia Millia Islamia, has been important to us nominated to the National Insti - tute of Disaster Management as here are six million Indians working in the Gulf. The Emirates is among The stem cell promise Great loss a Member. Tour largest trading partners. But India is equally important to the Gulf, The National Institute of Dis - for how would the Gulf have progressed without the workforce from India, The FaCuLTy of Dentistry, jamia Millia Islamia, or - Three STuDeNTS of the Faculty of engineering & aster Management is a premier wondered Ambassador CR Gharekhan, Former Assistant Secretary General, ganised a programme titled ‘The Promise of Stem Technology, Tabish bakri, Dilshad alam and Mohd. institute for training and capacity the UN, and Special Envoy of the Prime Minister for the West Asia and Mid - Cells – application and Future’ on january 30. Zeeshan, met a tragic end in an accident during development programmes dle East Peace Process, at a Gulf Studies seminar in January end, organised Dr Sujata Mohanty, associate Professor, Stem an NCC Camp at Kerala. for managing natural by the India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia. Cell Facility, all India Institute of Medical Sciences The three drowned in the Periyar river at the re - disasters in India, on a national Gharekhan also discussed the Arab Spring, and wondered whether, in (aIIMS), New Delhi, spoke on this theme, while mote village of Malayatoor in ernakulam district of as well as regional basis. the region, winter is setting in. “I have been optimistic about the Egyptian Dr Tarun giroti, a practitioner, talked about the the state, while they were participating in a The institute was established movement for democracy. Americans were not involved, and it was a gen - potential of dental stem cells. National Level NCC camp in December. as The National Centre of Disas - uine people’s movement. Now I am not so sure myself,” said Gharekhan. The programme was attended by academics jamia organised a condolence meeting to ter Management in 1995 and Prof Tim Niblock, expert in Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, was and members of the dental fraternity within and grieve their loss, which was attended by faculty, renamed in 2006. the keynote speaker and he spoke on ‘Shift to the East? Gulf Responses to a outside jamia, and a large number of students. administrative staff and students of the university. Transformed Global Order and a Divisive Regional Environment’.

JAMIA IN IMAGES There’s been a flurry of activity on the Jamia campus — cultural dos, seminars, high-profile visits, protests and much more. Glimpses of Prof Paul brass, some of these on-campus activities author and observer of India during the emergency years, in conversation with students of Political Science at jamia

Western music competition at the inter-university cultural festival Miraas , which saw competitions in one-act plays, mimicry, pot-making, poetry, management case studies and other segments

Pro Vice-Chancellor SM rashid inaugurates an exhibition of books in hindi and urdu, organised by the Dr Zakir husain Library Nano material, big dreams

The Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Jamia is at the forefront of some pathbreaking research works, which could change our lives for the better

very sophisticated and advanced process but is hundred times stronger than steel. It is envis - Students and faculty of Forman Christian College, Lahore, machine has been installed in the labora - aged that its application in medicine, energy con - visit the jamia campus and interact with students during Atory of Jamia Millia Islamia for carrying out servation, electronics and security systems can their India visit in February jamia’s football team, winner of Dr Zakir husain applied research in the area of Nanoscience and radically alter our lives. Memorial Football Tournament, 2013, in victory mode Nanotechnology. The technology developed As such, research in Nanotechnology can change through this equipment has the potential to change the way of treatments will be done in future, max - the way we live. This is the single wall carbon nan - imising the effectiveness and minimising the side otube synthesis facility, which was recently inaugu - effects of medicine; it can enhance energy efficiency rated by the Vice-Chancellor at the Centre for of our devices and cut down our electricity bills; it Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The technology can help our homes become steadier, it can development programme was sponsored by the De - drastically improve water and air purification partment of Electronics and Information Technol - mechanisms and it can even protect our national ogy, Ministry of Communications & Information boundaries, through better surveillance Technology, at a funding of `3.81 crore. This is the mechanisms. In the wake of the brutal rape incident in Delhi, students first facility of its type anywhere in the country. Scientists from Jamia, realising the potential of participate in a Peace Walk on the jamia campus, jamia’s horticulture department organises a flower show The end product of this process, the single wall carbon nanotubes and nanomaterials, have set their pledging ‘Zero Tolerance against Sexual Violence’ on the lawns of ansari auditorium on February 28 carbon nanotube, is a fraction of the weight of steel, sight on creating a leading research facility in

A major part of the funding is being spent on high-end process and characterization equipment. At the same time, a multidisciplinary faculty drawn The India factor from within the university and other organisations like the Defence Research and Development Organ - What career aspirations do international students at Jamia have, and how do their courses isation (DRDO) is being developed. at the University help them achieve their goals in their home countries? Prof Mushahid Husain, Director of the Centre, informed that the Centre is entering into collabora - tion with institutions in the US, Germany, South Fazel Haq Alamyar, Afghanistan Maryam Hekmat, iran Korea, and with National Physical Laboratory, IIT Bachelor of Business Studies Master of Fine Arts Delhi and other institutions in the country, to foster exchange of ideas. Dr SB Qadri, US Naval Research a self-financed student of BBS final se - THis sTudenT of Master of Fine Arts (Art History), Lab, Washington; Prof Vikram Kumar, Ex-Director, mester, Fazel got an insight about Jamia from his did her major in film direction at the National Physical Laboratory; and Dr Krishan Lal, elder brother, who is doing MA Economics at the Graduation level in Iran. She has President, INSA, are among the main mentors to University. Fazel plans to follow up BBS with MA made short films like Old Tehran , this programme. Dr Husain himself has done his in Public Administration and says, “There is a re - portraying Tehran as it existed 150 MSc Physics (Electronics) and PhD in Solid State lation between business and politics and my coun - years ago. Her reason behind com - Physics. He is a professor at the Department of try needs both of them.” While Fazel’s father runs ing to India is to understand Physics. a business in cosmetics, the son’s plan is to get a this country’s art forms and Dr Harsh, earlier associated with the DRDO government job, wherein an their history – sculpture, Nanoelectronics Programme and currently visiting understanding of business painting, etc. “There is so professor at the centre, says that the laboratory is and administration will much history here. And on its way to becoming the best facility for nano re - help him not just crack the there are also influences of search in the country. Already, young research entrance exam in his coun - one country’s art forms on scholars are being drawn to the research pro - try, but also to make a mark another,” she says. On the wish gramme. Shama Parveen, who has done her MTech while on the job. The list while in India is a visit to the in Nanotechnology from Jamia, and Avshish business of studies Ajanta, while Agra, Shimla, Kumar are pursuing their PhD in Synthesis and aside, Fazel Chandigarh and Aligarh have Characterization of Carbon Nano Tube for Device spends spare already been covered. Applications. Shama describes, “Our research will time playing help to reduce the size and drastically improve the football at the Helen Uzoma Ayanuri, Nigeria quality of display devices in comparison to current sports facility in LCDs displays. With this technology, the device can Jamia, where, PhD in Law The World goes Nano: (Above and previous page) be operated at a low voltage.” he says, there is Having done her LLM from Amity University, Researchers at the single wall carbon nanotube synthesiser Ranu Pal, who has done her postgraduation in a separate foot - Helen is now specialising in patent laws – a compara - Physics from Agra University, is now pursuing ball team of tive study between India and Nigeria. Studying Indian Nanotechnology since 2001. These experts have MTech in Nanotechnology from the Centre, and is Afghan students. laws is not a far-fetched idea, she says. Due to the been drawn from various disciplines of sciences – learning technology that can help to fabricate a Cricket is another British legacy, both India and Nigeria have a Physics, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Engineer - wash-free, wrinkle-free and dust-free fabric. The passion, reflecting similar legal structure, except the customary ing, Maths and even Computer Sciences. A number reason she gives is, “Since nano particles are used the increasing pop - laws. The research work in patents, she feels, of seminars have been organised over the last one in the creation of the fabric, the dust particles can’t ularity of the sport will help her plans to set up an NGO back in decade, and an MTech programme was started stick to them.” The same principle applies to nano- in his country. Nigeria, where she intends to work on HIV . in 2007. The University has been getting funding paints for homes, on which dust can’t stick. from organisations like DRDO and the Department Her classmate Chaudhary Mahfooz Alam, who Hem Sinath, Cambodia MA Public Administration of Electronics and Information Technology to set has graduated from UP Technical University, Luc - up state-of-the-art labs. know, is learning the nano applications in electron - A grADUAte iN Business Administration from Cambodia, Hem lapped up the chance to study It was only a logical culmination of these efforts ics, like nano antenna. Public Administration in india because his career goal is to take up a government job back in that Jamia created the Centre for Nanoscience and Students who have successfully completed the his country. However, he is aware that the thrust of what is being taught in india might be dif - Nanotechnology in December 2011, once the Uni - course are placed as scientists or engineers at insti - ferent from what might be required in his home country. there's another difficulty. “i find eng - versity Grants Commission accepted the project tutions like the University of Kaiserslautern, Ger - lish very difficult. it is by reading prescribed books that i have been able to understand what proposal of Jamia, worth `30 crore. Out of this, `10 many; Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore; IITs; is being taught in the class,” says this iVth semester student. crore has already been received. and the National Physical Laboratory.

Dunya Akgayeva, Turkmenistan Younes Charbgoo, Iran Alain Sawa Sawa, DR Congo MA Psychology PhD in International Law PG Diploma in Broadcast Technology HeR name means ‘world’, just as in Hindi and Having done a Bachelor of Law and Master of TowARDS ThE end of his BSc Physics course in his country, Alain had done a modulation proj - Urdu. And Dunya has seen a world of diversity in Art in International Law, Younes Charbgoo wanted ect which was related to Broadcast Technology. This got him interested in the subject, and India. Like every Turkmen, visiting India was a to follow up with a Doctorate. While trying to figure he browsed the net to look at the study options. The PG Diploma course at MCRC dream for this teacher of English, so when the out which country he should choose for his PhD, in Jamia featured prominently in the internet search. Convincing his parents ICCR scholarship to study Psychology came up, Charbgoo felt that India was close to Iran in terms about the need to study in India, Alain set out to apply for the course. she didn’t hesitate in changing her subject area. of culture. The comfort factor weighed heavily in Calling himself a first generation learner in this field in his country, Once in Jamia, she knew she had made the right favour of India. And feedback from friends helped Alain feels that media technology is open for exploration for qualified career switch, though she will now have to follow him zero in on Jamia, where Charbgoo is now pur - individuals. The infrastructure, including studios, is nascent, and this is it up with an allied study area like management or suing a PhD in International Law. where a course like Broadcast Technology can help him build a career. clinical behaviour or human relations. With his goal of working in an in - of course, his immediate plan is to appear for job interviews at the Observing human behaviour ternational organisation like the end of the course, to gain field experience in India. is just one task that occupies UN, Charbgoo is getting inputs her. There’s also India to be at Jamia that he had been seek - observed. “So many peo - ing. “Since I am specialising in in - Denise Ripamonti, Italy Muna Mohammed, Iraq ple… Such big trees,” she ternational law, it’s not just about MPhil International Studies PhD in Education shakes her head in disbe - Indian law, it’s about inter - lief. Indian dresses, national conventions,” he THis iCCR scholar’s ‘affair’ with India started in Having done a Master of Teaching English as biryani , paneer and notes. Also on the 2001, when she joined a BA programme in Linguis - a Foreign Language in Babylon, Muna taught the fried rice are also occu - agenda is to help his wife tics and Cultural Mediation at the Faculty of Political language at Babylon University. But as she says, “I pying the mind of this secure admission to a Science at the Milan University. She chose Hindi as have knowledge of English, but the method of spirited youngster Computer Science the specialisation language in this course, which teaching is also important, and I wanted to learn from a land of cold course in the Univer - meant that she got to study Indian philosophy, reli - the best methods. Thus I felt the need for research desert. sity. gion and history too in greater detail. India thus be - in Education.” The question was, which country to came a means to understand South Asia as a whole. head to for a Doctorate. India emerged as the nat - She followed it up with a Master’s in Languages and ural choice, on account of cultural proximity. Culture for International Communication. During “Thanks to your movies, I had loved India since ! INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL, her Graduation and Post-graduation, she made four childhood.” Jamia provided an added comfort fac - EW visits to India, and on three of these visits, she stayed tor, due to a large Muslim population. N NEW DELHI at Benaras for 4-6 months to study Hindi. She then Having already com - studied at Jadhavpur University as a visiting student pleted her MPhil at the IT GIVES US great pleasure to establish the International Summer for one year. Faculty of Education at School, New Delhi, at the Jamia Millia Islamia under the banner of the The present course in MPhil at Jamia’s Academy Jamia, Muna is now pur - Ministry of Tourism’s acclaimed Incredible India campaign. Its purpose of International Studies will only strengthen her case suing her PhD here. The is to promote international goodwill and cultural understanding among as an expert in South Asian Studies. While her MPhil biggest benefit that has tomorrow’s world leaders as they learn about India and its role in the specialisation area ‘Nature of Indian State and its come during her re - twenty first century. Relationship to Ideological Violence’, focussing on search work is Naxalism, is a challenging topic, Denise knows her exposure to An India-centric syllabus has been designed by the University to where to draw the line primary edu - focus on the complex realities as well as the immense potential of con - while interviewing au - cation, so temporary India. This syllabus comprises of the following undergraduate thorities. And while much so that level course modules: (i) Indian Politics; (ii) the Indian Economy; (iii) Indian Sociology; (iv) Indian History; she knows that she this univer - and (v) a Fieldwork module for which students would document their volunteer experience with Ritinjali, and her artist hus - sity lecturer an NGO that has been involved in numerous community development initiatives across the country. All band are comfortable now wants efforts would be made to facilitate the transfer of credits for students who are attending the programme travelling across India, to open her from other institutions. “Everytime you get to own school know a bit more, when she The inaugural session will be taking place this year from Sunday, June 16 to Friday, July 26, 2013. everytime there is a returns For more information about the programme, please visit www.issnewdelhi.in. new discovery.” home.

16 | Jauhar | December 2012-February 2013 Jauhar | December 2012-February 2013 | 17 STUDENT ZONE | STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS It pays to be attentive A ‘she-roes’ man A sound understanding of light and speed helps Zakir Hussain win an all-India photography prize A English student Aamir Qayoom Wani was selected to speak at a akir Hussain, a Master of Fine Arts stu - round table conference of student dent, learnt the basics of photography Mrepresentatives, young journalists as part of the course. What are the and bloggers at the American Embassy in New Zprinciples of light, how to control the Delhi on February 7. The topic was ‘Demographic light in your photograph, was something he learnt Dividend — How Youth View their Future in the in the class. With his Nikon D5000, he dili - New India’, with an emphasis on the role of women gently put those principles to practice on a in Indian society. The event was chaired by US Un - daily basis, on the way to the faculty, tak - dersecretary Tara Sunenshine. ing random photographs. But when the At the event, Aamir mooted the idea of ‘she-roes’, Vivekanand Youth Festival was an - and said that like heroes, ‘she-roes’ need to be All for equality: Aamir Qayoom (circled) with other nounced by the Association of Indian idolised. He said the need is to challenge our own speakers at the event at the US Embassy in New Delhi Universities, with competitions in vari - patriarchal thoughts at a personal level. ous creative fields, it was Zakir’s teachers An avid literature fan coming from a literary every fiction work he has read. And he has won nu - who had to push him into filling the form. family in Jammu & Kashmir, Aamir discloses that merous awards in literary and debating in his state The competition, held in Kolkata, was of he has scribbled famous lines from English fiction and at Jamia, including at the recently-organised two hours, during which the contestants all over his room. He has seen movies pertaining to Pickwick Fest.

had to take photographs of the surrounding A photo-sensitive person: Zakir (left) and his area. A total of five photographs had to be submit - composition at the competition ted. Nature lover that he is, Zakir came up with Picture perfect MCRC students some beautiful compositions, and was adjudged se, Zakir is devoting much time watching works of the best entry in the competition. famous artists, and has got a grip of what consti - amia Millia Islamia has been named as one of the 10 finalists for the at the IFFI Though not keen to become a photographer per tutes an effective composition. Jprestigious Sony World Photography Awards Student Focus competi - FilMS MadE by seven groups of tion, the world’s largest student photography programme and award. final year students of the aJK-Mass Anshul Mehrotra’s image ‘Over the Top’ captures the celebrations of the Communication research Centre A first for an Chhath Puja , an ancient festival dedicated to the healing energies of the Sun (MCrC) were screened at the 43rd Creativity journey, God Surya. This image was chosen to represent Jamia at the 2013 Sony international Film Festival of india Indian World Photography Awards. held in Goa from November 20 to Mridul KuMar upadhyay has been culinary ambitions This image beat entries from over 230 universities worldwide to be 30, 2012. The seven short films, awarded $2,000 by the american named as one of 10 finalists for the Student Focus award. Jamia will now ranging in duration from 13 minutes Society of Mechanical Engineers Com student Maisara Khan recently won `100,000 in a debate competi - compete against the nine other finalists from as far apart as New Zealand to 32 minutes, were screened on Foundation Scholarship (aSME), Btion organised by the IIPM, New Delhi. The theme in the preliminary and Argentina, to win the overall Student Focus title and €35,000 worth of November 21 and 26. New York. aSME is a not-for-profit round was ‘Facebook and Google Have Changed Us’, and in the final, ‘Does Sony digital imaging equipment. The image will be shown as part of the 2013 These young and budding film - organisation that enables collabora - Man Have the Ability to Exercise Freedom?’ She Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at the famous Somerset House, makers from Jamia were felicitated tion, knowledge-sharing, career-en - was ranked at the top in the competition. In cre - London, from April 26 to May 12. It will also be published in the 2013 edition by Festival director Shankar Mohan richment, and skills-development ative writing too, she got the first prize, receiving of the annual Sony World Photography Awards book. during the inauguration of the across all engineering disciplines. `1,500, while in the one-minute speech compe - event. The films that were screened Mridul did his BTech in Mechani - tition, she stood second, receiving `7,000. are Boot-Joota , Paridhi , Dhoomil , cal Engineering from Jamia in 2012. Daughter of a businessman, Maisara is an In the Judicial Service Mehta-Mahatta , Hari ki Meera , He has been awarded this scholar - alumna of City Montessory School, Lucknow. When the Trains Ran on Time , and ship for his combined intensive hon - She took avid interest in literature, debating and abeela Wali, who did her BA-LLB (2011) and is in the final semester of Circles of Sounds . ours curriculum with regular speeches and was elected the headgirl twice. NLLM at the Law Faculty of Jamia, has secured 14th position in the anannya Banerjee, the maker of voluntary work as a student in Why this switch-over from creativity to com - Delhi Judicial Service this year. She was keen to join the judicial service “on Paridhi , said, “it really was an hon - Jamia and he is the first indian merce? She says, “My career aim is to do an MBA account of the sense of responsibility that is attached to the post both by the our to watch not only my own film, student to win this scholarship. and open my own restaurant.” Let the legal system and the society at large, to undo what is wrong and to uphold but all of ours on the big screen.” creative juices continue to flow. what is right.”

much relevance. While she stayed had some competence in the field at MA Ansari’s house during her of pre-primary education, for The footprints of women Delhi visit, she keenly observed which no proper arrangements Jamia’s functioning and its multi - had yet been made in the Jamia. cultural ethos. She was, therefore, attached to Jamia had two prominent women visitors in the 1930s. One came as a keen observer, As historian Mushirul Hasan the Primary School and hostel for the other settled down as its foot soldier describes in the book Between the smallest children.”

Photographs courtesy Jamia’s Premchand Archives Modernity and Nationalism: Mushirul Hasan writes, “With Halide Edib’s Encounter with Gerda Philipsborne’s arrival in Gandhi’s India , the evidence of December 1931 and her joining compatibility of Islam and moder - the Primary School, Jamia took nity found “visible expression” in the first step forward towards be - the Jamia campus. “She under - coming a full-fledged co-educa - stood that faith is what gave The Apa at Jamia: tional institution.” And just four meaning to the lives of Munich- Gerda Philipsborne years into Jamia, she had created educated Zakir Husain, on the a space for herself in the institu - one hand, and the madarsa-trained Maulana Aslam tion, so much so that the Turkish visitor Edib Jairajpuri, on the other,” he writes, and quotes Edib, described her as a ‘Charming German woman to “One must study the Jamia if one wishes to grasp the whose ability a lot of success in the training of the forces at work in India.” little ones is due’.” During her visit to Jamia (this would have been at During the World War II, Philipsborne, who had Karol Bagh, and not at the present campus of the University, since the famous lecture series also hap - “With Gerda Philipsborne’s pened in Karol Bagh), Edib even observed how indi - vidual teachers were teaching. Hasan writes, “Halide arrival in December 1931... was impressed with the Jamia teachers. She found Jamia took the first step them engaged in shaping their classes into commu - nities that emphasised friendship, kindness and tol - forward towards becoming a erance.” In her book Inside India , Edib describes full-fledged co-educational how AJ Kellat, a teacher from Kerala, attacked caste identity, and in fact any symbol of identity, including institution.” Attraction of the East: Halide Edib (second from right) with MA Ansari during her stay in Delhi the Gandhian caps. “In his mind they are signals of a new caste... Gandhi Caste. But the students who have come to be known as Apa in Jamia, was interned by donned the caps of their own free will listen courte - the British, but after her release, continued to work alide Edib was a prominent figure in known) had taken to writing and teaching as a na - ously, but stick to their caps. There is a mixture of with full zest for Jamia, despite failing health. Turkey during the tumultuous early tional obligation” ( Khaleda Edib Khanam , by M maturity, tolerance and freedom of youth which only decades of the 20th Century. This Mujeeb, Jamia Risala , March 1935). such a type of training and education can confer on The lecture series HGateway to the West was witnessing India figured only distantly in Edib’s world. She youth,” Edib writes about Jamia. The lecture series by Halide Edib was attended by the weakening of the Caliphate and was under in - had met members of the Indian Medical Mission to leading national figures of the time, including Saro - creasing assault of the Western colonial powers. In Turkey in 1912, led by nationalist MA Ansari, and In praise of Gerda ‘Apa’ jini Naidu, C Rajagopalachari and Aruna Asaf Ali. this context, questions of modernity were sought to she had met Zakir Husain, M Mujeeb and Abid Hus - One person’s whom Edib praised was Gerda Philips - One of the sessions was chaired by Gandhi ji. The lec - be addressed by intellectuals of the time, Halide sain, the three future torch bearers of Jamia, when borne, a German Jew who befriended Zakir Husain ture themes were ‘Ottoman Turks as State Builders’; Edib being a leading light among them. they were pursuing their PhD in Germany in the and M Mujeeb during their German stay. Philips - ‘The Decline of the Ottomans’; ‘Revolution and War’; A political activist, an educationist, a women’s early Twenties. When she was invited to Jamia to borne had met this group of Indian scholars at the ‘The Turkish Republic’; ‘Literature and Culture-I’; rights champion and an author of many books, Edib give a series of lectures in 1935, Edib used this as an home of Sarojini Naidu’s younger sister Mrs Nam - ‘Turkish Women’; and ‘Review and Future Outlook’. stirred the conscience of a society at the crossroads. opportunity to understand the country better. biar, and had helped them understand the German She discussed the cultures of the East and West, In fact, touched by the sufferings of soldiers in the She also utilised the journey through India to un - life, taking them to concerts, operas, plays, art exhi - and argued that while the West’s problem was its ma - Balkan War, she even worked as a nurse for many derstand how another nation was seeking to address bitions and schools. In December 1932, she came to terialism, East’s problem was the other end of spiri - months. All these dimensions of Edib’s activities the tussle between modernity and tradition; how, in India because conditions in her home country were tuality and otherworldliness. In the true questioning should not be understood in separation. As M Mu - a pluralistic society, different religions co-exist; and becoming increasingly hostile for the Jews. In his spirit of an academic institution, the Jamia fraternity jeeb, key educationist of Jamia and later its Vice- if Islam across the world was compatible with book Dr Zakir Husain – A Biography , Mujeeb notes, and the other visitors put this premise of hers to close Chancellor, note, “Khaleda Khanam (as she was modernity. In this quest, her visit to Jamia was of “Now that she had come, what was she to do? She scrutiny too.

20 | Jauhar | December 2012-February 2013 Jauhar | December 2012-February 2013 | 21 PAGE OUT OF THE PAST | REMINISCENCES FACULTY PROFILE Many hats, one mission Thoughts on equality A Jamia teacher who saw the University developing to become what it is today At the Jaipur Literary Fest, author Ajay Navaria came up with his solutions for an equal, progressive Indian society

ujeeb Rizvi joined Jamia ‘College’, when Rizvi came up with the idea of starting NCC t the Jaipur Literary Festival ‘Lok Rajya’, ie democracy, he said. as a Hindi lecturer in October 1962, in Jamia College, he was asked to get trained as an in January end, one author In the Metropolitan session, he when the College was coming to NCC trainer. Some old students still recount to him Awho made a mark with his argued that the present-day rural Mterms with the realities of Inde - how they felt wearing the NCC uniform for the first thoughts on contemporary Indian social structure, which does not give pendent India. Jamia, in its earlier years under time. “We helped them come out of their shell. This society was Ajay Navaria, who youth the space to take decisions for Zakir Husain, considered itself a nursery of Gand - can be said to be one of the contributions of Jamia. teaches at the Hindi Department of themselves, should be destroyed. hian experiments in education and held the belief Many of them are senior professors now, even in Jamia. Speaking during the session Acclaimed author Jeet Thayil was a that in an Independent India its system of educa - Universities like Chicago,” Rizvi proudly says. ‘God as a Political Philosopher’ on co-panelist in the session. tion will be adopted across the country. But after The struggle of the College also extended to at - the Tata Steel Front lawns of the Navaria, who has emerged as a Independence, just like other pet projects of Ma - tracting students, given the tough competition from Diggi Palace, he countered Kancha strong voice of the underprivileged hatma Gandhi, his educational philosophy too was the University of Delhi. Rizvi describes how, during Ilaiah’s views that conversion can sections through his books and arti - given a go-by and the country continued with these years, the college embarked upon an expan - solve the problems of the deprived. cles, has penned Udhar ke Log British institutions. In such a situation, ex - sionist drive. The idea of rural institutes had been Though in theory all religions may be good, but the (Hindi) Unclaimed Terrain (Translated into English plains Rizvi, Jamia’s philosophy had lost mooted by the Government and Jamia was offered deprived sections have not been able to shed their by Laura Brueck), Pathkatha aur Anya Kahaniyan its relevance, though the institution was a role in this, which it accepted. “We even lapped caste identity even after conversion. What we need is (Hindi) and Yes Sir (Hindi). very dear to Pandit Nehru and he gen - up general education, when its popularity picked uinely wanted it to thrive. Rizvi debunks up in the country, though the number of teachers the idea that Jamia was marginalised be - remained the same,” says Rizvi, and describes that cause it was an institution with a predom - he took 42 periods per week, including teaching The Padma Shri honour Science award inantly Muslim population. Hinduism, Buddhism, Russian Revolution and dr Abdur rub, Assistant Professor, de - Rizvi describes the travails French Revolution. rofessor Akhtarul Wasey of Jamia Millia Islamia has been con - partment of biotechnology, Faculty of that the College had to go At the same time, efforts were also being made at Pferred the prestigious Padma Shri award. He has been honoured natural Sciences, has been conferred through in the years fol - the Government level to improve the condition of the with 80 other awardees for his contribution in with Indian national Science Academy lowing his joining. There College, and a committee appointed by the Govern - the field of Literature & Education. (InSA) medal for young scientist. the were just seven teachers ment recommended ‘deemed-to-be-university’ sta - Prof Wasey heads the Islamic Studies De - award carries a medal, citation, honorar - in the College, two of tus for Jamia. Another committee, headed by Nurul partment at Jamia Millia Islamia and is also the ium and a fund to carry out research. whom taught Islamiat Hasan in 1971, gave Jamia the right to start PG Honorary Director of the Dr Zakir Husain In - dr rub has done his Phd from the (a study of Islamic phi - courses. Other developments followed, like positions stitute of Islamic Studies at the University. He national centre for cell Sciences, Pune, losophy) and two taught like professor and reader, launching of Honours is the Editor of journals such as Jamia, Islam and his Post-doctoral studies from the Im - Urdu. The remaining courses, starting of Science stream, and, much later, and Modern Age (English), and Islam Aur Asr- mune disease Institute, Harvard Medical three had to do multi - establishment of the Engineering Faculty, MCRC, e-Jadeed (Urdu). School, Harvard university, uS. ple chores. So this etc. The statue of Ghalib was installed at the insis - He has written a number of books and his articles have been Hindi teacher got in - tence of then VC M Mujeeb, primarily to challenge widely published in journals, newspapers and magazines. He has One book, three VCs creasingly involved in “but-parasti ” (iconoclasm). been a representative at various fora, both nationally and interna - IntroductIon to Wavelets with Applica - the teaching of his - Rizvi recognises that each individual in Jamia tionally. tions , authored by Prof Khalil Ahmad, tory, along with Vice- during those years was capable of getting a higher dean, Faculty of natural Sciences, Chancellor M Mujeeb. salary, but Jamia acted as a glue because it gave Jamia, was released by Prof HP dikshit, In the true spirit of each individual due importance. “In any other uni - Weight for the gold Former Vice-chancellor of Indira Gandhi Jamia, the teachers versity you are a small component. Here I found national open university (IGnou), at were always coming up everyone, irrespective of the role he performed, r Aurangzeb Khurram Hafiz at the Department of Physics has Jamia on January 29. Prof dinesh Singh, with ideas for the bene - being addressed as ‘saab’.” Dsecured the top position at the recently concluded National Vice-chancellor, university of delhi, was fit of students. The only Rizvi, father of noted film-maker Anusha Rizvi, Benchpress Powerlifting Championships held at Jamshedpur from the Guest of Honour. najeeb Jung, Vice- condition was that the one is well aware of the “ chamak-damak ” Jamia has ac - February 22-26, 2013. Representing his home state, West Bengal, he chancellor, Jamia, presided over the who came up with the idea quired now. However, he can take pride in being an not only secured gold in the 120 kg weight class, but also became programme. had to implement it. So important building block of the institution. the highest lifter of the championship, with the final lift of 225 kg.

22 | Jauhar | December 2012-February 2013 Jauhar | December 2012-February 2013 | 23 The Balak Mata Centre

The Balak Mata Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia, located in the vicinity of Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, provides education and vocational training to deprived Muslim girls and women. The Centre runs from an old two-storeyed structure, which, according to a ‘DDA Urban Heritage Certificate Award’ given to the building in 1993, was used by Shah Jahan as “a home” while the Red Fort was being built. At one point of time, a Mughal prince’s begum used it as her residence. Later, the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar gave it to one of his grandsons. The building, which has undergone many alterations, follows the traditional Indian architectural pattern of a courtyard surrounded by rooms.

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