As an all India centre of excellence, the Jawaharlal Nehru University has consistently attracted bright students from all over India. This all India character of JNU and the critical minds of so many students have also made it a thorn for regimes that try to impose right wing and chauvinist dictations on the country. As a result, the BJP led government has been targeting JNU ever since it took office in 2014. The current attack therefore is in the first place a pretext. This is part of its agenda, as a regime devoted to creating a rabidly fascist-Hindu nationalist ideology as the governing and sole ideology in India.
An Extraordinary Moment
1 March 2016, byThe 2016 election is turning into an extraordinary campaign in a moment of accelerating crisis in the United States and globally. The massive economic insecurities facing working-class America, the horrific situation confronting African-American communities, and capital’s blind march toward ecological destruction are forcing themselves onto the agenda — and are dramatically reflected in Bernie Sanders’ Iowa dead heat and smashing New Hampshire victory. At this writing, he’s polling nationally within two percentage points of Hillary Clinton.
