Ramjas College, University of Delhi

Ramjas College | रामजस कॉलेज

Motto: ज्ञानात् परतर न हि | ["knowledge has no comparison"]

Ramjas College is a co-educational institution of higher learning located in University Enclave on the University of Delhi's 'North' campus.

Introduction to Ramjas College of the University of Delhi

(Perhaps) INTERESTING ASPECTS ABOUT RAMJAS COLLEGE
- (Originally-the-commoners’ College) among the top-three-oldest colleges of the University of Delhi

Founded in 1917 by the educationist and philanthropist Lala Rai Kedarnath Gupta [at its pre-original site of Darya Ganj near (world-heritage-site) Red Fort and before its foundation-stone - now actually an untraceable stone - was laid by Mahatma Gandhi and Rai Kedarnath at Kala Pahad renamed Anand Parbat (near Karol Bagh) on the occasion by Mahatma Gandhi himself], RAMJAS COLLEGE is one of the oldest colleges of the University of Delhi, along with the now-neighbouring (due to its shifting necessitated by World War II) Hindu College and St. Stephens College at the Main campus of the University of Delhi. Its Anand-Parbat-site had to be then-handed-over to the Allied Forces of World War II. RAMJAS COLLEGE had to be relocated to its present location on the north campus (inaugurated by the first President of India - Dr RAJENDRA PRASAD, and sited adjoining GTB Nagar, Shakti Nagar and Kamla Nagar) of the University of Delhi. Rai Kedarnath begged from city's rich and secured part-money to buy new land of the present Ramjas-College-site !
The college provides hostel facility with eighty seats for girls and one hundred twenty seats for boys. Along with a number of the Undergraduate courses and Postgraduate courses of Delhi University, the college also conducts Short-term Add-On courses and Language courses. Such has been the academic repute of the College that the First President of India Rajendra Prasad sent his daughter very discerningly to Ramjas College for her education!

The eminent alumni of Ramjas College include Choudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda (freedom-fighter and member of the first Constituent Assembly of India, and father of the present Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda), Chaudhary Brahm Prakash (the first Chief Minister of Delhi), Justice Y. K. Sabharwal (former Chief Justice of India), Justice A.P. Shah (former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court), Padmashree (Professor) Mushirul Hasan (Eminent historian, Ex-Vice Chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia, writer and the director general of the National Archives of India (NAI), Cambridge-University-Trinity-College-doctorate), Professor Hiren Gohain (Miltonian scholar, eminent public intellectual, poet, author, lyricist and music director), Ashok Saikia (former IAS-officer and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's points-man), (Professor) Saroj Kaushik (Founder and former head of the Department of Computer Sciences at IIT Delhi, Rajat Sharma (TV-presenter, News-editor and Co-founder of India TV), Manoj Bajpai (film actor, known for films like Satya, Aks, Pinjar, etc.), Shekhar Suman (film actor and TV-personality), Prakash Jha (film director and known for his films like Dil Kya Kare, Gangajal, Rajniti and Turning 30, and currently engaged in making Aarakshan), Pathik Vats aka Uma Shankar Pathik (Filmfare-award-winning dialogue-writer, lyricist and director of numerous ad-films, documentary films and feature films, more known for having scripted (Filmfare Award) and Co-directed (with Mathew-Mathai who won the Filmfare Award for the effort) the Amir-Khan-Sonali-Bendre-Nasiruddin-Shah-starrer – ‘Sarfarosh’, besides having directed Ajay-Devgan-Sunil-Shetty-starrer 'Quayamat' and Govind-Nihalani-scripted 'Khushboo'), Manish Jha (film director, Cannes Jury award winner and known for movies like ‘Anwar’ and ‘Matru bhoomi’), Rahul Roy (documentary film-maker), Himanshu Joshi [lead-singer (for Hindi) and (off-and-on) manager of the music group 'Indian Ocean'], Praveen Kumar, Documetary filmmaker, Pravesh Rana (TV-personality, TV-show Big Boss Season 3 Finalist, male model and winner of highly coveted Haywards-5000-Mr-India-2008 award), Sudhanva Deshpande (Editor with ‘LeftWord Books’, besides being a theatre personality, actor and director with Jana Natya Manch – associated with the Left-wing Street Theatre in Hindi), Nitin Gupta (NASA scientist) and Raj Kumar Gupta (Director of ‘Aamir’ starring Rajiv Khandelwal and ‘No One Killed Jessica’ starring Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan, besides being Assistant Director to Anurag Kashyap in ‘No Smoking’ and ‘Black Friday’).


The College-alumni apart, perhaps only a few people know that Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee lived for many years, before he became India's Prime Minister, at Ramjas College with the family of the then Ramjas Hostel Warden late B.N. Kaul (a former Professor of Philosophy at the College, and Vajpayee's childhood pal). Mrs Kaul is still the caretaker of Atal Bihar Vajpeyee. Kauls' two daughters have been adopted by Shri Vajpayee.
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