[Pune]Tom Alter Starts New Episode In FTII By Quieting Acting Department
Noted actor Tom Alter has resigned from his post as head of the acting department in the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
He emailed his resignation But his resignation had not been accepted by the FTII management so far.
According to sources in the premiere institute which has witnessed unrest on the campus on various issues during the last one year, a strained relationship with the students also contributed to Alter’s decision to resign.
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Tom Alter Starts New Episode In “FTII” By Quieting Acting Department
FTII’s Agitating 35 Students Slapped Charge Sheet
[Pune] FTII’s 35 Agitating Students Slapped Charge Sheet
35 FTII students were today listed in a charge sheet .They are charged for gheraoing + illegally confining the institute’s director Prashant Pathrabe last year, of whom 30 were later granted bail.
The Deccan-Gymkhana police, which is probing the case, filed the charge sheet against 35 students in a court and the next hearing will be held on April 2,
“There are total 35 students against whom the charge sheet has been filed. Five students were arrested on the intervening night of August 18-19 and released on bail. 30 students, including 12 who were out on anticipatory bail, were given (regular) bail today,”
The FTII students, were on a strike for 139 days since June last year against the appointment of BJP member and TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as its chairman,
Seventeen students were last year identified and named in an FIR filed in connection with the case.
Last week, the police, after screening the video footage of the incident, had identified 18 more students and asked them to present themselves in the court today.
JNU Teachers Rallying Behind Students,Join Strike For Nationalism Classes
[New Delhi]JNU Teachers Voice Solidarity With Their Agitating Students And, Join Strike For Nationalism Classes
JNU teachers today joined the students in boycotting classes in protest against arrest of its student union leader in a sedition case and said they would take classes on “nationalism” in the varsity lawns.
The students had yesterday gone on an indefinite strike till JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar is released and the sedition case against him dropped.
After 10 teachers and a group of students were attacked yesterday in Patiala House court complex where Kanhaiya was produced yesterday, the teachers association decided to join the students in boycotting classes.
. It is time we teach our students what nationalism is,” said Rohith Azad, a faculty member, who was among those who were attacked yesterday.
The one-and-half-hour long lecture on “nationalism ” will be held every evening at 5 in front of the administration block.
JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last week in connection with a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy registered over holding of the event at the varsity during which anti-India slogans were alleged to have been raised.
His arrest has triggered widespread outrage among students and teachers and drawn severe criticism from non-BJP political parties.
The university teachers had earlier rallied behind its protesting students and questioned the administration’s decision to allow the police crackdown on the campus even as they appealed to the public not to “brand” the institution as “anti-national” but they had not joined the strike earlier.
Teachers’ bodies of 40 central universities and Pune-based FTII had also come out in support of the agitating students, saying it is an issue of “indiscipline” and not “sedition”.
Over 400 academicians from international varsities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, SOAS, University of Toronto, McGill, King’s College, University of California, Berkeley and New York University have also expressed solidarity with JNU students
भक्ति गायक अनूप जलोटा ने पुरस्कार लौटाए जाने को राष्ट्र का अपमान बताया
[जोधपुर] भक्ति गायक अनूप जलोटाने पुरस्कार लौटाए जाने को राष्ट्र का अपमान बताया | ऍफ़टीआईआई के छात्रों के असंतोष और असहिषुणता को लेकर अवॉड्स लौटाए जाने का विरोध भी शुरू हो गया है
जाने माने भक्ति गायक अनूप जलोटा ने ‘‘बढ़ती असहिष्णुता’’ के विरोध में राष्ट्रीय एवं अकादमी पुरस्कार लौटाने को राष्ट्र का ‘‘अपमान’’ करार दिया है।
राजस्थान संगीत एवं नाटक अकादमी के निमंत्रण पर कार्यक्रम प्रस्तुत करने शहर में आए जलोटा[६२] ने कहा कि अपना विरोध जताने के बेहतर तरीके हैं।
जलोटा ने कहा, उन्हें दिया गया पुरस्कार राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार है और किसी विषय पर इसे लौटाना कुछ और नहीं बल्कि पुरस्कार तथा राष्ट्र का अपमान है। स्थिति सुधारने के लिए अपना विरोध जताने के लिए लोगों को एकसाथ बैठना चाहिए और राष्ट्रपति से मिलना चाहिए।’’ एफटीआईआई प्रमुख के रूप में गजेंद्र चौहान की नियुक्ति पर जलोटा ने कहा कि छात्रों को उन्हें काम करने का मौका देना चाहिए और फिर फैसला करना चाहिए कि वह योग्य है या नहीं।
Prestigious FTII Agitating Students Call Off 139-day Strike
[Pune,]FTII Students Call Off 139-day Strike, protests still on
Agitating students of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India today unilaterally called off their 139-day-old strike, but made it clear their protest against appointment of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as its chairman will continue.
They also ruled out any “proactive engagement” with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry until the issue of appointment of Chauhan, best known for his role of Yudhishthir in teleserial Mahabharata, and four other FTII society members, gets resolved.
FTII Students Association (FSA) representative Vikas Urs said the students have taken a collective decision to go back to academics with “immediate effect” in the best interest of the fraternity.
Referring to FSA’s talks with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry which could not end the stalemate, Urs said the ministry conveyed the impression that it had no mandate to take a decision in the matter.
आवर्ड लौटाऊ साहित्यकार+ऍफ़टीआईआई के झगड़ालू छात्र अपना अपना ठीया जमा रहे हैं ?
झल्ले दी झल्लियां गल्लां
भाजपाई चेयर लीडर
ओये झल्लेया ये कांग्रेस वाले मुल्क का बेड़ा गर्क करके ही मानेंगे |ओये पहले अपनी सरकार में अपने चहेतों को अपने अवॉड्स बाँट दिए अब इनकी सरकार के जाने के पश्चात बढे नाटकीय ढंग में उन पुराने अवार्ड्स का ठीकरा हसाडे सरकार के सर फोड़ कर पुराने -शुराने अवॉड्स को लौटाकर नई हवा बनाने का कुप्रयास चल रहा है | ओये इन्होने ऍफ़टीआईआई का बटाधार तो कर ही दिया | हसाडे कर्नल राज्य वर्द्धन को भी इन्होने अंगूठा दिखा दिया|ऍफ़टीआईआई के ये कथित छात्र इसी बात पर ही अड़े हैं के “मैं ना मानू” “मैं तो मानूं ही ना” अब तुम ही बताओ के ऐसे में कहीं कॉलेज चलते हैं भला ?
झल्ला
ओ मेरे चतुर सेठ जी!आप लोगों ने इनके पालन हारों की दुकाने बंद करा दी ऐसे में ये बेचारे अपना अपना ठीया फिर से ज़माने का प्रयास रहे हैं और आप लोग हाय हल्ल्ला मचाये जा रहे हो | भापा जी ये आवर्ड लौटाऊ साहित्यकार+ऍफ़टीआईआई के झगड़ालू छात्र अपना अपना ठीया जमाने का प्रयास कर रहे होंगे
FTII Agitating Students[For Creativity]Demanded More Financial Powers For Hardware
[Mumbai]FTII Agitating Students[For Creativity]Demanded More Financial Powers For Hardware: Got Accepted
I & B Secretary‘s Met with FTII students representatives in Mumbai today
A meeting was held in the office of Films Division in Mumbai between the representatives of FTII Students Association and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. The Ministry was represented by:
1)Shri Sunil Arora, Secretary
2)Shri K.Sanjay Murthy, Joint Secretary (Films)
3)Shri Mukesh Sharma, Director General, Films Division
4)Shri Prashant Patrabe, Director, FTII
5)Shri U.C.Bodke, Registrar, FTII
Ms. Aruna Raje, representative of GRAFTI was also part of the deliberations.
During the discussions, the students sought
[1]an enhanced delegation of financial powers and flexibility in purchase of hardware etc. to enable them to do their creative work.
It was agreed that Shri Mukesh Sharma would examine this matter and submit a report within a fortnight to the Ministry.
[2]The students and Ms. Raje also reiterated their desire for turning FTII into an institute of national excellence at par with the reputed institutions across the world.
They were accordingly asked to submit a paradigm/concept note/blue print within a fortnight which would be a major input for taking this matter forward.
Secretary will have another round of talks with the students on 10.10.2015 in Mumbai and also request Hon’ble Minister of State, I&B to have a meeting with the students in Delhi in the near future.
40 Students Gheraoed Director So They Faced Police Also In The Campus: FTII Tension
[Pune]Students Gheraoed Director So They Faced Police Also In The Campus:FTII Unrest
Police ,On 17 August,stormed the premises of FTII to disperse a group of striking students who had gheraoed director Prashant Pathrabe, protesting against “irrational and unjustified” assessment of the incomplete diploma projects.
Tension prevailed in the campus as about 40 students gheraoed Pathrabe in his office this evening, refusing to leave unless he gave a “rational” explanation for the ongoing assessment by the faculty of the incomplete films made by the 2008 batch.
When contacted, Pathrabe had told PTI earlier in the evening that he had been gheraoed by the students, but was “safe”.
A students’ representative said they had “stopped” the director in his office since he had “decided to go on with unfair assessment of the incomplete film projects”.
The FTII Students’ Association (FSA) has alleged that the assessment was politically motivated and aimed at getting rid of about 50 inmates belonging to the 2008 batch on the ground of “overstaying” due to incomplete projects.
The students, according to a communication from the association, tried to contact I&B ministry’s joint secretary to seek his intervention but received no response.
Pathrabe has maintained that he was following the ministry’s dictates in going ahead with the assessment.
The strike by FTII students against the appointment of BJP member and TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of FTII society entered 68th day today.
Rahul Gandhi Ups Attack on FTII Issue,May Approach To The President
[New Delhi]Rahul Gandhi Ups Attack on FTII Issue,May Approach To The President
Stepping up attack on the FTII issue, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused RSS of capturing educational institutions built on merit in the last six decades to destroy them.
Congress sources said he would lead a delegation to President Pranab Mukherjee to seek his intervention over the ongoing students’s stir against the appointment of actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
Rahul who had earlier also visited FTII to support the demand of the students who want Chauhan to be removed.
“The capturing of educational institutions by the RSS is a political issue. I am not politicising it. The BJP is politicising it.
“Every institution that has been developed over the last 50-60 years on merit is being destroyed. This is a political issue not a social issue,” the Congress Vice President said.
Students’ agitation at FTII is going on for nearly two months after government announced the appointment of Chauhan as head of its governing council.
The students have been boycotting classes since June 12, demanding Chauhan’s removal, maintaining that he lacks “academic credentials, vision and stature” to head the premier institute.
Government Dares FTII Agitating Students To End Stir For Talks:Strike Enters In 41st Day
[Pune,22 JULY] Government Dares FTII Agitating Students To End Stir For Talks Govt Today Made It Clear That There Will be no Talks Unless Students Withdraw the Stir.
As the strike by the students entered the 41st day today, the Film and Television Institute of India(FTII) Students’ Association (FSA) announced that they will stage a protest demonstration along with “like-minded people” in New Delhi on August 3 coinciding with the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
The students, who are demanding that the appointment of actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as Chairman of FTII Governing Council be revoked, said that the message they got from the Institute authorities was that there will be no rethink on the government’s decision.
Through the demonstration, the students hope to draw the attention of MPs from various political parties towards the Government’s “insensitive” approach to their demands and seek their intervention.
Briefing the media about their interaction with the new Director of FTII Prashant Pathrabe, representatives of the FSA said the message from the Ministry conveyed to them through him was that “there will be no talks till the stir is withdrawn and also no rethink on Chauhan’s appointment”.
The message from the I&B Ministry is that “there will be no revocation of Chauhan’s appointment or reconstitution of the FTII Society (the main demands of the agitating students).
FSA spokesman Vikas Urs said, “The Government has shown complete disdain by not engaging in a meaningful dialogue with the students over their demands.”
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