A Decade After JNU Sedition Case, Silenced Dissent Is the Norm on Indian Campuses
Tarushi Aswani | 21 February 2026 | The Wire
New Delhi: Bright banners plastered across brick walls announce a literature festival along the roads leading to the various colleges in Delhi University. The festival, the banners say, was held in DU from February 12 to 14. Inside the colleges and across campus hostels, sound checks play bhajans. The brochure labels this festival as the genesis of a vibrant literary ‘parampara (tradition)’ envisioned by Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh.
Ten years ago, February carried a different charge across the capital’s campuses. At Jawaharlal Nehru University, a protest meeting spiralled into arrests and a national confrontation that would come to redefine the relationship between universities and the state….