Campuses should be free of physical & mental violence: Prez at IIM-C
April 01, 2017  18:58
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Addressing the 52nd annual convocation of IIM Calcutta, President Pranab Mukherjee today said that university campuses should be free from not only physical violence, but mental violence.

"I am ready to accept argument, but cannot accept intolerance," the President said. 

"India is a land of tolerance. We accept, absorb, adopt and embrace. We don't reject anybody," he said.

He further added, "India is always tolerant. Let 100 ideas blossom in universities and let there be debate, not confrontation."

On Friday, at the inaugural ceremony of the 'Namami Brahmaputra' festival in Guwahati, Mukherjee said that he does not agree when people label Indians as intolerant.
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