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New Delhi 1987
Moments at Jawaharlal Nehru University

Best days of my life? Middle-class moaning, or meltdown in the face of debt? A student explains the facts of student life, while his father shudders. IT WAS A SATURDAY about five weeks ago when the penny dropped. Or, to be absolutely precise, the pounds didn’t. My friend and I, both first years at JNU, were at the students’ union doing important student business — watching the Mahabharata on the little screen. Even as class room teaching and, work in the library and the laboratories have their share in the mode of instruction, personal interaction between students and teachers and among students themselves form an extremely important and lively medium of generation and transmission of knowledge. Sometimes high decibel disputes about the validity of theoretical premises or cultural substructures of a particular scientific or economic thesis do spill over from the class and hostel rooms onto the middle of the campus roads, at times causing traffic bottlenecks. Happily, these have never caused a road accident! The annual Students Union elections are conducted entirely by students.

	Fierce poster and cartoon wars, verbal duels and competitive yet peaceful group meetings are a viewers' delight during the elections. Violence is the only alien on the campus. The life at Jawaharlal Nehru University started. Busy with studies and little to play, made true friend around to live the way. A trip to Jaipur with the University fiends. My first trip out from

	JNU campus was visiting Jaipur. We were at lesat 50+ of them mostingly from CSRD, that got together packed in a bus making around trip to Rajasthan. Playing Holi at University Campus. This was a very special in JNU. Many of the hostels served bang in the hostel that morning among with the usual hostel breakfast with tea and milk. Many drank bhang and then when out of hostel

	to the campus playng hotel. so did I but not drinking bhang, but a plain glass of milk. Surprised!!.Trip to Agra with the University friends. This was my second trip from JNU with friend where we visited Agra. another memorable and good trip that we could never forget. Seeing the Taj Mahal was a wonder to be remembered.

	Saraswati Puja at the University Campus was another exiting event all organizaed by the Bengalis. Thought the university classes would be on, most of the teachers gave us off and the whole campus enjoyed the puja. Incidently there were several Professors who were bengali also participated after the classes. interesting hundered would line up for bhog, while hundreds would be busy making bhog/serving prasads.

	A Trip to Diamond Hardour during the holidays. This was one of the trip after we left JNU. Not many come together but that was our last trip together in 1990. After then many of moved around. Some went to US, while few to UK and Japan while few dispersed within the large country called India. But whatever it was JNU days were the best ever days I had.


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About Jawaharlal Nehru University
The JNU campus is a microcosm of the Indian nation, drawing students from every nook and corner of the country and from every group and stratum of society. To make sure that this is so, annual admission tests are simultaneously held at 37 centers spread across the length and breadth of the country, and special care is taken to draw students from the underprivileged castes and ethic groups by reserving 22.5 per cent of seats for them. Overseas students form some 10 percent of the annual intake. Students' hostels and blocks of faculty residences are interspersed with one another, underlining the vision of a large Indian family. Several Centers in these Schools have been declared by the UGC to be Centers of 'Excellence'. These are Centre for Historical Studies, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Centre for Political Studies, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, all in the School of Social Sciences. In addition three Science Schools--School of Physical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Environmental Sciences have also received the UGC recognition as Centers for Excellence.




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