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Alienated Generation:
THE EXTENT to
which our society is getting polarised along religious lines is very
disturbing. If this is the state of affairs almost seven decades
after independence, what might happen a few decades later?....
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New Delhi: When you are in power
no body will raise a finger at you. But when you are out of power or
going to be out of power a number of fingers will start rising. As
with others this is true today with noted historian and Vice
Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia Prof Mushirul Hassan. Prof Hassan
has completed his five year tenure as VC of Jamia. But he has been
included in the list of five contenders recommended for the coveted
post at the internationally known central university by the search
committee set up by the HRD ministry.
His inclusion in
the list has unexpectedly divided the Jamia community – the one
stood behind him as rock stone in the aftermath of the Batla
encounter wherein a Jamia student was gunned down and several others
were later picked up from the vicinity of the university. His
announcement of legal help to the arrested Jamia students in
connection with Delhi serial blasts had made him hero overnight –
several thousands came to street in his leadership to protest the
police highhandedness. The same VC today is being opposed for the
second term. It is not that he has no supporter.
In fact both
teachers and students seem evenly divided on whether Prof Hassan
should be given another term for the most powerful office of the
university. His tenure as VC is being analyzed by the Jamia
community these days.
The issues being
raised in informal discussions by the Jamia community range from the
infrastructural development of the university to controversial
appointments of teachers to VC Prof Hassan’s approach towards
minority status of Jamia.
Prof R. Gopinath,
a teaching faculty at Dept. of History denies giving credit of
Jamia’s development to Mushirul Hassan during his tenure itself.
This is not right to give credit of development of the university to
only one person, says Gopinath. He states that it was the UPA
government that allotted fund to Jamia, not only Jamia but also
other universities. Prof. Gopinath remembers those days when there
was no direct involvement of the VC in the appointment of teachers.
It was Mushirul Hassan who made the interference of the VC office
easier. R. Gopinath suggests that VC should follow the rule.
Another teacher
from the faculty of Humanities & Languages, on the condition of
anonymity, expressed his views. He is worried on the less percentage
of Muslim students in the university. He is not happy about the
academic standard of the university either. He states that a
university is not known from its buildings. If it is so the Taj
Mahal should be considered one of the best universities of the
world.
Ghufran Jeelani, a
student at Jamia, expresses more or less the same view. He is
unhappy over the attitude of the administration that has failed to
make an environment where admissions of Muslims are made easier. He
recalls the motives of establishment of this university which say it
was established for Muslims to get education. But now the situation
is different. Jeelani says Jamia is becoming Taj Mahal… jise dekhne
ki ijazat to hogi lekin hum wahan reh nahi sakte (which can be
viewed but one can not be allowed to live in.)
Digvijay, a
student at social science faculty, however praises the vice
chancellor to have introduced Jamia’s secular and liberal view to
the world but he does not forget to count shortcomings, one of which
is the gagging of students’ voice.
Jawed Alam, president of Jamia Old Boys Association, talks about
minority character of the university. Jawed criticizes VC and Jamia
administration for not support the demand for establishment of its
minority character. Alam says that old boys are trying to get its
minority character legally. Jamia teachers association and previous
students union are also supporting the demand. They are equally
fighting legally and socially but with a slower speed.
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