A new rule in JNU to penalise students for protesting inside campus brings to attention the role that student movements have played in shaping local and national politics in India. They have also launched the careers of some of the leading politicians in India former vice-president Venkaiah Naidu, former finance minister Arun Jaitley, and Union minister Nitin Gadkari, among others.
Over the past 50 years, lion numbers have decreased by three-quarters. Only 20,000 to 40,000 of these majestic big cats survive in the wild today. A third of lion deaths are a result of poaching, and even where lions are killed in retaliation over livestock predation, in many cases their body parts are harvested for […]