Saturday, 23 November 2019

Print Media on JNU Protests


The threat to the idea of a public university
Avijit Pathak is Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
20 Nov 2019 – The Hindu

JNU, truly national

Chandan Yadav is a former JNU student and currently Secretary, All India Congress Committee
21 Nov 2019 – The Hindu

Should we do away with subsidies for higher education?

Inclusiveness and equity are very important characteristics of a good public institution.
Yoginder K. Alagh is an economist and former Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shyam Menon is a Professor at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi and former Vice-Chancellor, Ambedkar University
22 Nov 2019 – The Hindu



Police Round Up Students in India's Capital as Fee Protests Grow

By Reuters
Writing by Zeba Siddiqui
NY Times on 18 Nov 2019


The Age of Authoritarianism
Why the rage at JNU?
These days, our public universities are surrounded by police, show cause notices and charge-sheets, and the intellectual poverty of petty administrators
Avijit Pathak
(The writer is Professor of Sociology, JNU)    
Deccan Herald – 14 Nov 2019
But then, it is sad to see the role of our administrators. They have ceased to be teachers and communicators. There is no trace of Paulo Freire or M K Gandhi in their deserted souls. As they see every act of resistance as a ‘law and order’ problem, they miss the opportunity to enter the inner world of young minds: their academic aspirations amid societal pressures, their quest for self-actualization amid the tyranny of authoritarian personalities,


Malaise in higher education: The JNU Protest
Bhaskar Kumar, Prannv Dhawan, (The writers are students of the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru) 
Deccan Herald - NOV 21 2019




JNU doesn’t take things lying down
Deccan Herald Editorial – 16 Nov 2019



Stop bullying the JNU students


Pritish Nandy
– Nov 20, 2019, Times of India


The Bid To Unmake JNU

60% of those admitted in 2018-19 were SC/ST/OBC; 40% were from families earning under Rs 12,000 p.m.

India Today – 22 Nov 2019
-Sucharita Sen is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, JNU.



Ironies and barricades: How between JNU and BHU, we see the brutal distance that separates us as a nation

Written by Saikat Majumdar |
Indian Express – 22 Nov 2019
Majumdar, author of ‘The Firebird’, teaches world literature at Stanford University, US


Written by Parnal Chirmuley
Indian Express – 21 Nov 2019
The writer is associate professor, Centre of German Studies, JNU



Print Media Opinions, Op-Eds, Editorials - Whats Missing?


All the above i have pasted are NOT the News Headlines. They are Opinions, Op-EDs and Editorials. Much of them are authored by the JNU professors. Some of them non-JNU but carrying same opinion. 

I went through every one of them. They all are same. There is no counter opinion at all. "The Hindu" carries a debate among 3 professors. But pretty much no divergent views at all. And by the way, they all say, Government is stifling their voice!!! 

The ENGLISH PRINT MEDIA is so opinionated that it is quite scary. The Hindu for example is carrying every day opinion on this subject steadfastly. It is giving so much importance to this protest that nothing else is of such national importance!  

Casually checking around urban English speaking middle class, very few people read these opinions. They are highly influenced by what they get in their Whatsapp and Facebook more than these English Print Media opinions. And even most of the English daily readers are also not in support of the violent protests by the JNU despite reading these articles. 


It looks like, that the hooligan students of JNU create ruckus. Then the Professors write sophisticated English articles for all the leading English Dailies and Weeklies about their right to protest. Some guy even quotes, MK Gandhi is being missed. They paint the administrators as tyrants with no heart. They do not utter a word about the hooliganism of students upon administrators, police and authorities. 

These are articles completely avoid talking of: 
- Students detaining in-humanly an asst. professor for a full day
- Students desecrating Swami Vivekananda Statue in the campus
- Their disruption to normalcy & traffic on main roads of Delhi
- Students heckling the minister visiting

MK Gandhi did hunger strike. Why dont these poor students take up to hunger strike? If not hunger strike at least silent strike?!

Despite being such violent students how are they getting so much media space & sympathy? Despite Social Media being so much against them, why English print media is steadfastly behind them? Isn't it run by economics of readership? OR is there a parallel economics for the Print Media?





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