The Rise and Fall of Ambedkar University
Sayandeb Chowdhury | 03 October 2024 | The Wire
When public universities in India make it to ‘happy’ headlines, it is mostly about the stratospheric pay packets that graduates from IITs and IIMs get from campus interviews. Otherwise, news concerning universities is more often than not about funding drought, excessive politicisation, pernicious mismanagement, creaking infrastructure, brain drain etc.
It is widely known, for example, how institutions like Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia among several others, were hounded and raided ad nauseum by right-wing lumpens in the last decade or so. What also hogs headlines, across the spectrum, are the inconsolable acts of suicide of young pupils for causes too well known to repeat here….