JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) is back in news yet again. From what I get from our media back home about the JNU issue, the students are protesting against the subsidies they had been getting for long is now cut off. They are just addicted to freebies like opium. Being educated ones, they should realize that nothing is free and some one else pays for them. The famous or infamous University, depending the way you see it, often resembles a war zone.
I have visited the JNU Campus in the 1990s and had eaten couple of times in their hostel mess (no relation to the mess happening there, the food court of college hostels are called mess in the local parlance). The food quality was substandard by hostel standard, hardly close to my Engineering college food. But what I heard from my host, the food was subsidized, quality be damned.
I could see signs of leftist ideology, with some hardcore socialist leaders, who during the day preached communism to core, as the solution to all global evils. Come evening, they would hanker for Scotch or Bacardi (much sought after those days, so as I, as a visitor with access to those fascinating phoren stuff from the land of Bourgeois). Later they would go out eating Ice Cream with girl friends in posh eateries of South Delhi. The juxtaposition of Communism with Scotch, followed by Ice Cream, reeked of hypocrisy, as nauseating as an alcoholic's Piarrhoea effusing mouth.
Since then, much has changed, but not the commie sentiments in the Campus. Liberal thoughts flow inside the institute as the river Yamuna in spate during the monsoon. Liberalism is not a dirty word, though I diagree with the JNU brand of liberalism. But a note to the ultra liberals of JNU breed - Being Liberal or anti-BJP is one thing, being a succor to freebies is another.
We can agree to disagree with American liberals, but they don't compromise when it comes to their national security. Best example is Obama. A classic Chicago liberal, he had no qualms about taking out Osama bin Laden or ordering drone strikes on terrorists. (Our Diggy Singh was the soul prominent politician in South Asia to shed a few crocodile tears for his Osama Jee). Scores of liberal Democrat Senate and House members broke with Obama and voted with Republicans in preventing him from vetoing the bill to admit in 10,000 Syrian refusees to America.
On the other hand our liberals back home sound like blatant Paki Premis (lovers) and everything that doesn't make sense. The current drama in JNU is just a piece of political puzzle, an effort to grab a piece of political pie in the guise of protest. Dear JNU students, study hard, pay your dues and get out of the campus once you earn your degree. Staying in news for wrong reasons is not the right thing to do.
Very aptly the facts have been put forth.
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