Starting in February 2016, a protracted struggle has taken place on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, pitting the students and their faculty supporters against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Administration of the university. The protestors’ issues chime with the desire to leverage justice that drives this issue. This piece presents one senior scholar and one early career scholar blogging about these events.
Articles by Ameet Parameswaran
Ameet Parameswaran is Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His publications include “Contemporaneity and Collective: The Reportage in Amma Ariyaan” in Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Transition; “Affirmation and Disidentification: The Labour of Performing ‘Brand India,’” in Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts; and “Zooësis and ‘Becoming with’ in India: The ‘Figure’ of Elephant in Sahyande Makan: The Elephant Project,” in Theatre Research International.