Community Events

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Several members of IIT Kanpur community -- including faculty, students, employees and workers have organized and participated in meetings, protests, or in other ways supporting workers' rights within the Kanpur campus. In this page we attempt to document some of them:

• 1st June 2014. In memory of Mukul Sinha who died recently of cancer, Hamara Manch organized a brief remembrance and film screening.

  • • Mukul Sinha was an alumni of IIT Kanpur and PRL, and a well known activist who died of lung cancer on 12th May, 2014 at the age of 63.

    • Note that he was involved in the workers' cause at IITK, in particular being invited for the Open House on 3rd Feb, 2014 by Faculty Forum.

    • You can read a very brief summary of the event here from one of the friends at Hamara Manch.

    • - You can find the invitation letters for the event here: in Hindi, in English.

    • - Some friends associated with Citizens' Forum, who interacted with Mukul Sinha when he came to campus wrote this tribute.

• 1st May, 2014. 1st May (Workers' day) celebrations organized by Hamara Manch.

  • • You can take a look at the invitation for the event as shared by Students' forum.

    • - Students' Forum is an informal group of students interested in social issues (among others).

• • 3rd Feb, 2013. Open House organized by Faculty Forum in the context of Workers' Deaths.

    • You can find a detailed Hamara Manch update here.

    • You can also look at the resolution as adopted by the Open House.

    • Eyes (IITK campus newsmagazine) published an account of the Open House in June 2013.

    • Read it here: A rare opening of the house, Saumyen Guha, Eyes, June 2013.

  • 2nd Feb, 2013. An interaction session with eminent lawyer and IIT Kanpur alumnus Mukul Sinha, organized by Hamara Manch.

    • A short report from an alumnus associated with Citizens' Forum, who visited the campus to attend this event [as well as the Open House organized by Faculty Forum on the next day].

  • 11th-14th October, 2012. Poster campaign during Antaragni.

    • A group of students decided to organize a poster campaign on several issues, including those of labor -- they describe it thus:

    • "During Antaragni our conscience pricked. So a group of us made an appeal through posters which were promptly torn off by the socially concerned festival organising committee."

  • 24th March, 2012. Democratic Traditions at IIT Kanpur: Learning from an Alternate History (Prof. Basant Sarkar Memorial Event).

    • Find a contributed set of articles for the event here.