Summary:
more-inThe Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association's five-day protest-lecture series on ‘Democracy and Social Justice: Access and Equality’ opened on Wednesday to a packed audience at Freedom Square, JNU. The lecture series will conclude on January 25 with the release of the book ‘What the Nation Really Needs to Know: JNU Nationalism Lectures’, which is a compilation of the lecture series on nationalism held after the February 9 incident. The speakers on the first day were Magsaysay Award winner Bezwada Wilson, Professor of Economics at Delhi School of Economics, Ashwini Deshpande and Professor at JNU, Archana Prasad. Ahead of the event, the JNU administration had requested JNUTA not to hold the lecture series outside the administration block as all protests and dharnas have been banned at Freedom Square. But the situation in our democracy is such that a mother is now requesting her son not to study”..