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Students boycott their own convocation ceremony in anti-nuclear protest

TISS students protest against Ramesh – Hindustan Times, 11 may 11“……The students – some carrying placards, others sporting yellow-and-black t-shirts with anti-nuke slogans, several more sporting black bands – greeted the minister by raising slogans when he arrived at the TISS Deonar Campus to deliver the convocation address Wednesday afternoon.”We are protesting against the 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra and other mega-projects in Orissa and Jharkhand. Thousands of common people are being displaced or uprooted there,” said Pranab Doley, an organiser of the protest.
He said that since the student community is feeling strongly about these huge developmental projects, they decided to boycott their own convocation ceremony in which they would have been presented their coveted degree certificates at the hands of the minister…..
TISS students protest against Ramesh – Hindustan Times

May 12, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, opposition to nuclear