Left Politics

Kanhaiya Kumar seeks more Left footprint as Right spreads wings

In conversation with Firstpost, Kanhaiya Kumar revealed some honest insights about his journey & offered a host of arguments on his 'activism and politics'.

Jai Jawan, Jai Samvidhan? Flip-flops and convenience now come handy to JNU activists

Students of JNU once again gathered at the administrative block to celebrate the release of Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya from judicial custody on Friday evening. Chants of "lal salaam" were once again shouted at the highest pitch possible, and they reverberated in the campus

#SeditionRow: In two open letters, JNU professors Paranjape and Datta debate Kanhaiya's 9 Feb speech

After Makarand Paranjape, professor of English at JNU, during his lecture on nationalism questioned the basis of left politics in the campus, he came under severe attack.

JNU is like a land of lotus-eaters, where we haven't emerged from the Cold War: Makarand Paranjape

In the on-going series of teach-in lectures on nationalism at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Makarand Paranjape, professor at the Centre of English Studies (CES) emerged as an alternative voice on the JNU row when he asked if the institution was a 'democratic space' or a 'Left hegemonic space', and why Leftists had trouble accepting the 'legitimacy of the Indian State'. Speaking to Firstpost, he reflected on the challenges that JNU faces today and why he is critical of Left politics on campus