Book Description

What happened in JNU on February 9th and why? Was it an isolated incident or was it part of a prolonged ideological war waged by those nursed financially and intellectually by foreign powers who are against India? The unfortunate events of that fateful day have put this distinguished institution in news for wrong reasons. A group of students belonging to a host of communist organizations along with separatist Islamist Jihadi ‘guests’ openly called for ‘breaking India’, ‘destroying India’ and challenged the country’s justice delivery system for hanging a terrorist killer who was convicted for attacking the Indian Parliament in December 2001. In short, it was a war cry against India and a show of strength in favour of her enemies. People across India, who watched on their TV sets, this shocking act of glorifying terrorists and their sordid deeds which are a threat to civil society and humanity the world over, were full of disgust and anguish. The national outrage was so severe that reactions included unwarranted calls for shutting down JNU or withdrawing its grants. This booklet is an honest review of the events and the history of this institution to drive home the point that JNU is not a culprit but a victim. These events in JNU have once again revealed that since long a bunch of desperate fifth-column communists and jihadi terror mongers have hijacked JNU’s image to achieve the nefarious goals of their political masters in India and paymasters abroad. To help JNU live up to the ideals for which it was established in early 1970s, it is essential that civil society makes concerted efforts to cleanse this temple of learning from the vice like grip of anarchists and anti-national elements masquerading as ‘progressives and liberals’. The events in JNU are the expressions of a mindset that is now ravaging parts of the Middle East, which has, in the past, killed millions in China, in the erstwhile Soviet Union and in Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Such a sick intellectual paradigm poses a threat, not only to India but to the entire world and especially to the core human values of freedom, pluralism, multiplicity and co-existence.