Real education should widen one’s horizons of thoughts and actions that one may not be considered normal. Normality in the understood notions is all about settling down, buying house, investing in the financial markets to reap benefits in the long run and so on. Individuals with widened horizons are led by their mind and heart into ever widening thoughts and actions. Sometimes, therefore, they are labelled as abnormal but such abnormalities are necessary in the larger interests of the society, nation and humanity as a whole.
But my mind fails to understand the abnormality that certain fringe elements on the campus of JNU are suffering from. At the same time it must emphatically be put that this abnormality is not a general phenomenon with all students or the majority of students on the campus. At the most, it’s a specific phenomenon with certain anti-national characters on the campus. These characters have consistently misled the new entrants in the university.
The support for terrorists like Afzal Guru, Yakub Memon etc., the champions of misunderstood notions of a particular religion is very much antithetical to a certain philosophical or political understanding which takes religion as opium of masses thereby denies place for religion in public duty and in private thinking. But what these misguided elements on the campus are doing is exactly opposite to the notion of the ideology that they claim to be guided by. They are celebrating the death anniversary of a terrorist who planned an attack on the parliament of India thereby waged a war against the nation. His hanging is therefore very much justifiable by the state.
Universities must remain as the centers of churning of thoughts. Academia must debate on the issues like capital punishment, freedom of expression and so on that would serve to safeguard the constitutional rights of citizens. But the choice of date of the death anniversary of a terrorist inspired by anti-India conspiracy, reveals the wretchedness and the anti-national feelings these characters embody.
Which Azadi for Kashmir are we talking about? The one that would definitely turn out to be a safe haven for terrorists that will wage war on the sovereignty of India putting a lot pressure on the security apparatus on the country or something that would turn out to be a colony of our strong neighbor to pursue its policies of containing India? Aren’t they aware as to how Pak Occupied Kashmir or the State of Pakistan has become hell with everyday incidence of terrorists brutally killing innocent individuals or school going kids or they themselves have alliances with these groups? If later is the case then it’s definitely an awakening call. We must start identifying the hidden agenda behind such events that shout the slogans of “India ki Barbadi”. Strictest of actions against such characters is then a logical conclusion!!
