Politics

Our universities are being captured by rebels without a cause: Makarand Paranjape

Swarajya Staff

Mar 13, 2016, 01:24 PM | Updated 01:23 PM IST

Makarand Paranjape

Makarand Paranjape

JNU professor Dr. Makarand Paranjape was recently in news for differing with the student leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s statements. Newsd spoke to him on issues of campus politics and beyond. The professor spoke about how students activism has degenerated in our universities, how slogans are raised and protests held just to deliberately hurt the sentiments of some communities.The full video is available below.

Swarajya thanks newsd for the footage.

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