Interview with Vijoo Krishnan
Vijoo Krishnan is a farmers’ rights activist serving as the Joint Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha. He is also the Head of Department at St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru and a former…
Category: Youth Politics
Interview with Ram Bahadur
Ram Bahadur is former ABVP activist at Banaras Hindu University. He actively opposed Indira Gandhi during the Emergency. Currently, he’s the President of National Centre for the Arts. This material is exhibited as…
Interview with Ajoy Bose
This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
Interview with Gyan Prakash
Gyan Prakash is historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. During his Masters at Jawahrlal Nehru University, he served as the General Secretary at the JNU Students’ Union…
Interview With Dontha Prashanth
Dontha Prashant is a PhD scholar in Economics at the Central University of Hyderabad (HCU). He was one of the five Dalit PhD scholars from HCU, including Rohith Vemula who was suspended in…
Interview With Rohit Vemula
Rohit Vemula was a Dalit-rights student activist and a PhD scholar at the Central University of Hyderabad.
He committed suicide in 2016 due to caste discrimination at his University. His suicide led to….
Interview with Pradeep Narwal
Pradeep Narwal is a student at Jawahrlal Nehru University. He initially joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of BJP due to it’s positive position in his village. However in…
Interview With Apoorva Yadav
Apoorva Yadav is a former student activist at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He started his journey in student politics as a member of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) a left wing student organisation….
Interview With Surajit Mazumdar
Surajit Mazumdar is currently a professor of Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,
School of Social Sciences, Jawahrlal Nehru University. He was a Masters student at JNU in 1985 and was actively involved…
Interview with Anand Kumar
Prof. Anand Kumar is a retired professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was a student at JNU in the 1970s and was a part of a student collective called Free Thinkers…
Interview with K N Govindacharya
K N Govindacharya is a founder Bharat Vikas Snagm, Eternal Hindu Foundation and Rastriya Swabhiman Andolan. Formally Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak, environmental activist, social activist, political activist and thinker. He was associated with…
Interview with Shiv Bakshi
Shiv Bakshi is a former student activist belonging to the ABVP unit (a student wing of the Bhartiya Janta Party) at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He then continued his association with the BJP and…
MoC: Caste Assertiveness /on the wall
Pamphlets showcasing the acrimonious debates revolving around caste questions in campus spaces. This specific selection from 2016 engages with the uproar following the suicide of Dalit student activist in the University of Hyderabad. This material is exhibited on a wall panel as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
Interview with Indrani Mazumdar
Indrani Mazumdar is currently a researcher at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies. He shares her experience of being a student at JNU for her Bachelors and participating as a student protester against the Emergency of 1975-77.
Interview with Prakash Karat
Prakash Karat pursued his PhD from JNU in the 1970s. He played an important role in the formation of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union and its constitution. He shares his experience of the creation of the Students’ Union and…