'Until the draconian and dehumanising policies are removed, the students will continue their struggle to maintain the independence of one of India's top universities.' Opinion | ShubhdaC
When thousands of student protestors from Jawaharlal Nehru University tried to march from their campus to the parliament in New Delhi on November 18, they were brutally baton-charged by Delhi Police.
But the intellectual, often left-leaning, discourse produced within JNU has now become a challenge to the growing hyper-nationalist, anxiety-ridden and neo-liberal discourse mushrooming in India at an alarming rate. The growing paranoia surrounding JNU, which reduces it to a mere hotbed of ‘communist ideologies' against India stems from political dementia and inaccurate historical interpretations.
In February 2016, three students of JNU were arrested for sedition, accused of chanting ‘anti-India’ slogans while protesting against the capital punishment charge given to Afzal Guru, the Kashmiri ‘terrorist’ involved in the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. The chants also included support for Kashmir's right to self-determination.
Later, investigations revealed that the real culprits were outsiders and no concrete evidence was found linking the three arrested students with the event, and they were granted bail.In an instant, a reductive binary was established to pit JNU as a target of the growing ultra-nationalistic discourse in India.
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