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Ramjas College to hold quiz on ‘Akhand Bharat’ today

| Wednesday | 22nd March, 2017

‘Need no controversy’Acting principal of Ramjas College P. C. Tulsian said that various seminars and event have been successfully organised at Ramjas College over the past month. A month after violence broke out at Ramjas College over the conduct of a seminar on ‘Cultures of Protest’, which fuelled a ‘national’ vs. ‘anti-national’ debate at Delhi University, the Ramjas Quiz Society is organising the “Akhand Bhara: The India Quiz” on Wednesday. Ramjas College Students’ Union president Yogit Rathi also denied that the quiz was being organised to evoke a sense of ‘nationalism’ and to shed the ‘anti-national’ image that has surrounded the college after the violent clashes. “The quiz society is free to organise whatever quiz they want to. Mr. Prasad, who will be the quiz master at the event, said that theme-based quizzes are quite popular in the college quizzing circuit.

more-in A month after violence broke out at Ramjas College over the conduct of a seminar on ‘Cultures of Protest’, which fuelled a ‘national’ vs. ‘anti-national’ debate at Delhi University, the Ramjas Quiz Society is organising the “Akhand Bhara: The India Quiz” on Wednesday. Initially, a social media page inviting students to participate in the quiz read: “Umar Khalid and his gang not allowed” to participate in the quiz on “Parampara, Pratishtha, Anushasan”. The invite page later removed the reference to Mr. Khalid. ‘It is just a quiz’ When asked if the India-specific quiz was being conducted to instil a spirit of ‘nationalism’ after the February 22 incident, the student organiser of the quiz Digvijay Prasad said: “It will have questions on geography, geographical indication tags, history and culture. It is not specific to any ideology”. Mr. Prasad, who will be the quiz master at the event, said that theme-based quizzes are quite popular in the college quizzing circuit. Ramjas College Students’ Union president Yogit Rathi also denied that the quiz was being organised to evoke a sense of ‘nationalism’ and to shed the ‘anti-national’ image that has surrounded the college after the violent clashes. “The quiz society is free to organise whatever quiz they want to. It is not being organised by the students’ union,” said Mr. Rathi. ‘Need no controversy’ Acting principal of Ramjas College P. C. Tulsian said that various seminars and event have been successfully organised at Ramjas College over the past month. “Societies are free to organise events as it is an integral part of life at Delhi University, but I have given strict instructions not to organise any anti national programmes or invite any controversial speakers,” said Mr. Tulsian. “We do not want to have a repeat of what happened last month... we have to remember that India comes first and then the college or the individual,” said the acting principal.

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