This is not just about Kanhaiya Kumar

June 12, 2016 12:16

In an eruditely written piece Mukul Mangalik has spoken out against what he feels is a concerted effort to deny a student a chance to speak.

A section of Delhi University teachers did their best to prevent Kanhaiya Kumar, elected President of the JNUSU, from speaking at a khaali thaali (empty plates) dharna (sit-in) organised by the DUTA on 6th June outside the UGC compound, he writes.

A University wrote Nehru, stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth. It stands for the onward march of the human race towards ever-higher objectives.

A couple of centuries earlier dare to know had become an inspirational slogan, everything must be examined, everything must be shaken up, without exception and without circumspection, a motto, both together opening up hitherto unimagined possibilities for emancipation.

Read the piece in its entirety HERE.

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