Written by Kaushik Dasgupta |Published: April 13, 2019 7:09:02 am
Not another brick in the wall
A call to reclaim institutions of higher education as spaces for debate, dissent and dialogue
A newspaper photograph that caught the eye in the past few days is that of former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President, and CPI candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from Begusarai, Kanhaiya Kumar, flanked by the mother of another JNU alumnus, Najeeb Ahmed. The visual speaks of the embattled state of their alma mater. Najeeb enrolled in JNU in 2016 and should have been on course to complete the academic requirements for a degree in biotechnology, last year. But he has been untraceable for more than two years, and his family and fellow students have raised strong suspicions of foul play. Kanhaiya’s troubles with the current regime — inextricable with JNU’s recent travails — are, of course, well-known.
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