Known as Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) in Jammu has its own background, struggle and aspirations of the people which resulted in its establishing in 1999 to work for agricultural research and development. One main thing, however, has been missing in it in that it has no evident sign of identity specific to the place like most of other similar Universities in the country have like Punjab Agricultural University, Haryana Agricultural University so on and so forth. […]
K B Jandial There is nothing wrong in renaming the roads and institutions in India as it started immediately after Independence. In fact, the Govt undertook this exercise to identify public roads having names drawn from India’s colonial past and shed the symbols of foreign domination and rechristened these with Indian and local names. Delhi’s Kingsway Road was the first road to be rechristened. It was renamed as Rajpath. The next road was Queensway which was renamed as Janpath. It […]