JNU's excess factor

This is a book written with scrupulous honesty, even innocence

JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil War

Author: Makarand R Paranjape

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Pages: 278

Price: Rs 595
 

This is an almost-rigorous account of what ails India’s premier national central university, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The author, who claims to be the senior-most professor at the university and teaches English there but is currently seconded to the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla as its director, makes no bones about his admiration for Narendra Modi or his contempt for a certain kind of JNU student (and teacher). He views the crumbling intellectual and physical stature of JNU pityingly (he believes dispassionately). In between, he