Express View on Attack on Foreign Students in Gujarat: Mob on Campus
Editorial | 19 March 2024 | Indian Express
As the world is becoming increasingly interconnected,” says the National Education Policy (2020), it is the responsibility of institutes of higher education to “become active promoters of more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure, and sustainable societies”.
The attack on five foreign students on Saturday night at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad by a mob, reportedly for offering namaz during Ramzan, flies in the face of that commitment and promise. In videos of the incident, about 25 young men can be seen assaulting the students, two of whom were hospitalised…