The Wednesday Discourse

Jamia Millia Islamia’s Department of Political Science invites you to a Book Talk with Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Head of the Department of Political Science at Ashoka University. He will discuss his book Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850–1950.

Date:
23 April

Time:
2:30 p.m.

Venue:
Seminar Hall, Department of Political Science
Jamia Millia Islamia

Jamia Millia Islamia’s Department of Political Science invites you to a Book Talk with Peggy Mohan, featuring her work Father Tongue, Mother Land: The Birth of Language in South Asia.

Date:
21 April

Time:
2:30 p.m.

Venue:
Seminar Hall, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences
Jamia Millia Islamia, Department of Political Science

Jamia Millia Islamia – Department of Political Science invites you to a Book Talk with Ambassador Ajay Bisaria, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, on his book Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship Between India and Pakistan. The session will be chaired by Professor Bulbul Dhar-James.

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM
Venue: Seminar Hall, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences

On Jan 22, Amogh Dhar Sharma gave a book talk on his recent work THE BACKSTAGE OF DEMOCRACY: India's election campaign and the people who managed them; a riveting account of the dramatic shift India's electoral campaign has undergone over the last decade.

On 15th Jan 2025, Amb. Shivshankar Menon addressed the students on the trajectory Indian foreign policy has taken over the years, bringing in insights from his long successful career in diplomacy and now academia.

Ideas of nature in the tropics have often been analyzed through the discourse of ‘tropicality,’ which posited an essential difference between the environments of the West and those of the tropical parts of the Empire. This lecture examines an alternative framing of nature in the Empire, focusing on smoke and air, where an uncanny resemblance was drawn between atmospheric conditions in English towns and Indian cities such as Calcutta and Bombay, even as Indian and European bodies were imagined as entirely distinct. The discussion highlights the racial, class, and gender relations through which energy and environment were linked in colonial cities. The analysis concludes with reflections on the relevance of this historical perspective for contemporary understandings of atmospheric and urban conditions in India.

DASTANGOl by Nadeem Shah was the highlight of our lit-fest POLILITIKA.
In pictures
1) and 3) Mr .Nadeem Shah
2) Wafa presenting the honorarium to Mr. Nadeem Shah.

Session 4: Redefining boundaries: Gender perspective and social change.
In pictures
1) Ms. Shrayana Bhattacharya
2) Ms. Anubha Bhonsle
3) Chair: Prof. Bulbul Dhar- James
4) Nazrah introducing the speakers.

DAY 2 of POLILITIKA was spent discussing youth and culture in session Il and session Ill with our wonderful panelists.
In pictures
Indian Youth
1) Prof. Sanjay Kumar
2) Ms. Manisha Pande
3) Dr. Divya Vaid
Session 2: Shaping tomorrow: The Aspirations and Challenges of
Session 3: Culture and Politics: Intersections of identity and power
4) Ms. Aanchal Malhotra
5) Mr Yousuf Saeed
6) Dr. Aakriti Mandhwani
Our lovely Chairs
7) Prof. Nishat Zaidi
8 )Dr. Sucharita Sengupta

POLILITIKA - DAY 1
The esteemed panelists shared their unique perspective on THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INDIAN POLITICS, generating an enriching debate on Indian politics and academia.
In the photos
1) Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan
2) Prof. Amitabh Matoo
3) Dr. E. Sridharan
4) Dr. Niranjan Sahoo
5) Nazrah presenting the honorarium to Dr. Sahoo

POLILITIKA
DAY 3

POLILITIKA
DAY 2 - 12 feb