Truth be told; cheap attack by indian media on prestigious Muslim University !
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Trying to make up for the love that was lost from the Bangladeshi brethren in 1971.
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Our university ,our media ,our internal affairs,,
What is your problem?This is noone of your business.
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Indian media is known to work in this way for a long time, There is nothing specific here..... Do not portray it like this happened because it was a muslim university...... The suggestion was a stupid one and it got the media attention.....
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NDTV article below :
What Aligarh Muslim University Needs
(Mohd Asim is Senior News Editor, NDTV 24x7)
The crude comment of the Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University that girls will attract more boys at the varsity's central library has created a lot of noise and fury. But we must thank the Vice Chancellor for this rather bad joke. It at least brought to the fore the serious issue of a section of girl students being denied use of a university facility for being, well, girls.
The issue is as old as the library itself. It is a legacy of the century gone. The central library, named after India's first education minister Maulana Azad, is out of bounds for under-graduate girls at the AMU. Ironically, the issue exploded on national media on the birth anniversary of Maulana Azad. The university's argument that these girls have a library of their own at the Women's College, which is about 3 km away from the main campus, is illogical.
During my years at the AMU as a student - from schooling to post graduation in 2004 - I saw girl students speak up against this gender-based discrimination. If lack of space is an argument for under-grad girls, then why not for under-grad boys? Let only students pursuing their post-graduation, men or women, use this library, one of the finest and biggest in Asia.
The real issue is the mindset of the administration, not "space" or "distraction". A separate college for girls till the undergraduate level and denying access to common facilities, restrict their ability to realise their full potential.
A woman professor at the AMU, who didn't wish to be identified, aptly said, "The students of the Women's College have to perform with the limited resources of the Women's College library, while their male counterparts have access to one of Asia's finest libraries. When women students are unable to access the facilities, services and knowledge structures that the institutional space of a university offers, such unequal access leads to differential learning outcomes and opportunities. Women's roles in participatory learning as well as in the democratic decision-making processes of the institution are compromised. Besides, their exclusion creates a general culture of inferiority in women. This weakens and dis-empowers women at vantage points of knowledge production, thereby reproducing the social knowledge of women's limitations and barriers for women. Their exclusion also creates a general culture of fear to speak. This systemic denial perpetuates a culture of silence and acquiescence."
This professor says her only hope today rests in Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani, who has sought a report from the university.
The role of the HRD ministry is indeed pivotal and that brings me to a larger question of university administration. The most cruel joke that successive governments have played on AMU is appointing former Armymen and bureaucrats as Vice Chancellors. The current VC, Zameeruddin Shah, is also a retired Lt General, and at least two other top posts in the administration are today occupied by former faujis.
Why on earth should a fauji be sent to run an educational institution? Is there a shortage of good academicians? Why don't we hear of former Generals being deputed at DU or JNU?
Educational institutions should be spaces of debate, enquiry, exchange of ideas and harbingers of change. An ex-fauji or a retired babu on a post-retirement assignment cannot bring in new ideas. They only administer and rule. They curb free expression, embolden patriarchal tradition and play "safe".
Owing to the high-handed and status quoist approach of its administrators, the AMU is operating in inertia quite oblivious to the socio-economic changes in the nation. For any change to come to the university, the government must first change its policy of sending babus and faujis to administer it. Let good academics take over.
What Aligarh Muslim University Needs
(Mohd Asim is Senior News Editor, NDTV 24x7)
The crude comment of the Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University that girls will attract more boys at the varsity's central library has created a lot of noise and fury. But we must thank the Vice Chancellor for this rather bad joke. It at least brought to the fore the serious issue of a section of girl students being denied use of a university facility for being, well, girls.
The issue is as old as the library itself. It is a legacy of the century gone. The central library, named after India's first education minister Maulana Azad, is out of bounds for under-graduate girls at the AMU. Ironically, the issue exploded on national media on the birth anniversary of Maulana Azad. The university's argument that these girls have a library of their own at the Women's College, which is about 3 km away from the main campus, is illogical.
During my years at the AMU as a student - from schooling to post graduation in 2004 - I saw girl students speak up against this gender-based discrimination. If lack of space is an argument for under-grad girls, then why not for under-grad boys? Let only students pursuing their post-graduation, men or women, use this library, one of the finest and biggest in Asia.
The real issue is the mindset of the administration, not "space" or "distraction". A separate college for girls till the undergraduate level and denying access to common facilities, restrict their ability to realise their full potential.
A woman professor at the AMU, who didn't wish to be identified, aptly said, "The students of the Women's College have to perform with the limited resources of the Women's College library, while their male counterparts have access to one of Asia's finest libraries. When women students are unable to access the facilities, services and knowledge structures that the institutional space of a university offers, such unequal access leads to differential learning outcomes and opportunities. Women's roles in participatory learning as well as in the democratic decision-making processes of the institution are compromised. Besides, their exclusion creates a general culture of inferiority in women. This weakens and dis-empowers women at vantage points of knowledge production, thereby reproducing the social knowledge of women's limitations and barriers for women. Their exclusion also creates a general culture of fear to speak. This systemic denial perpetuates a culture of silence and acquiescence."
This professor says her only hope today rests in Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani, who has sought a report from the university.
The role of the HRD ministry is indeed pivotal and that brings me to a larger question of university administration. The most cruel joke that successive governments have played on AMU is appointing former Armymen and bureaucrats as Vice Chancellors. The current VC, Zameeruddin Shah, is also a retired Lt General, and at least two other top posts in the administration are today occupied by former faujis.
Why on earth should a fauji be sent to run an educational institution? Is there a shortage of good academicians? Why don't we hear of former Generals being deputed at DU or JNU?
Educational institutions should be spaces of debate, enquiry, exchange of ideas and harbingers of change. An ex-fauji or a retired babu on a post-retirement assignment cannot bring in new ideas. They only administer and rule. They curb free expression, embolden patriarchal tradition and play "safe".
Owing to the high-handed and status quoist approach of its administrators, the AMU is operating in inertia quite oblivious to the socio-economic changes in the nation. For any change to come to the university, the government must first change its policy of sending babus and faujis to administer it. Let good academics take over.
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Hindusim is problem and all terrorists are hard core Islamic... your hate for non Muslim is well known..
Brother, this earth belong to all animals of all religion, Not only your Arabic manmade god or Indian god.. Please don't be Zombie, be human...
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no... in india too, esp. india, there are female groups who are anti-female... be that durga vahini or be that aasiya andrabi's "dukhtaraan e millat" burqas... remember that saying... "the worst enemy of a female is another female".
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You are wrong. The below excerpt is from AMU's site
Aligarh Muslim University Reservation Policy AMU Muslim Reservation | Aligarh Muslim University: AMU All Help
More over much of their staff is Muslim as well.
The same is true for Jamia Millia Islamia University Delhi.
Jamia Millia reserves 50% seats for Muslims | TwoCircles.net
50% M reservation in the two institution is the handiwork of UPA govt.
Another thing outlawed outfits like SIMI was founded in AMU
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The news says the issue is really of crowding in library.?
The central government allocates crores of funds including the 30 crores in 2012-2013 and 100 crores in 2013-14.
How much does it costs to build a library? few lakhs? maybe a crore?
So who eats up this fund?????? Thats the real question, this thread should focus upon, if we go by the article.
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A citizen of country which was created for a single religion on the planet has the obvious right to malign Hinduism or Hindus by hook n crook and I don't doubt your religious duty as soldier of Islamic republic of Pakistan....
On topic-
Our stand remain unchanged....
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LOL. Typical sexist muslim male
........... one moron even thanked you for posting that nonsense 
Is the worst enemy of a Male another Male ? ....... why such a patronising tone towards the female ? Bloody hypocrite.
And how is "durga Vahini" anti female ?
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LOL. Typical sexist muslim male
Is the worst enemy of a Male another Male ? ....... why such a patronising tone towards the female ? Bloody hypocrite.
when "operation majnoon" was conducted by lucknow police a few years ago, the police beating up couples in parks included female constables ( because by law, female police must be present to act against female "criminals" )... aren't mothers-in-law the first ones to seed poison against the bride ( in dowry crime cases )... aren't female neighbors the first ones to gossip cruelly about some female neighbor's dress or lifestyle... aren't mothers participant in "honor killing"... what about the case of the 2009 ram sena attack on amnesia night club and the attitude of now-former "national commission for women" member, nirmala sitaraman...
what is their opinion on "love jihad" and night clubs??
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So ? what is your point ? That man attacking women or man is ok but women attacking women somehow makes it "women is worst enemy of women" ?
How is this related to you calling "durga vahini" anti women ? First answer my question if you expect me to answer yours.
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