delivering lectures.We are here debating terms that we are being bombarded with.We are here to do what we are best at doing, namely teaching.” The retort was aimed at a VC who has invited much criticism after he allowed police on campus through a hurriedly dashed off letter (before February 12, 2016) to the authorities. We are gathered here after a full day’s teaching, after 6 p.m. While introducing the series, a senior professor said that the teachers organising the series on the advice of the Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar who said that “we (teachers) must take our academic lives seriously. On the evening of the first lecture, it was professor Gopal Guru who delivered the first salvo. The day that Kanhaiya Kumar was experiencing brutal blows by men in black coats (lawyers!) as an impotent Delhi police looked on, (February 17, 2016), the stalwart teachers organisation, JNUTA (JNU Teacher’s Association) began an innovative series of lectures, out in the open, after regular classes as its own special answer to the rather vile propaganda doing the rounds on the airwaves of private television.Ĭalling it a lecture series, titled the Ideas of Nationalism, the title of the series is to the point : What the Nation Really Needs to Know: India, - The National and Nationalism JNU teachers create History with the sit in lectures titled, What the Nation Really Needs to Know: India - The National and Nationalism
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