Originally posted by: Vedika211
I didn't say it was said that day, just that it is said. During my years in DU, I too heard a lot of slogans from both sides - some of them were quite brutal, but references the events of those times.
Yes, most of the videos have been made from one side or the other. There is no neutral coverage of this event at such.
Most of the students at JNU and DU are not necessarily well-off. Some of them come from lower middle class while some come from lower middle class or labouring classes. Both DU and JNU have entrance exams. When you fill up the JNU form, you have to list the annual income of your family as well as the specific area you come from - they take a lot of people from tribal areas and cut-off areas. [I know this because I filled out the JNU application form, took the entrance exam and did not clear it.]
JNU is only a postgraduate university, not an undergraduate one. So all its students are doing either Masters or M.Phil or PhD. It is a research driven university. For most of these students, thinking, writing and organizing events and rallies is their way of being political. Not everyone who feels strongly for the country need only fight for it. By that logic, politicians should go first of all where they happily send the foot soldiers.
Is there a similar video where they interview students on the other side?, I haven't come across any, not talking about videos being shown on news channels.
I think you misconstrued my point, these people are comparing/paralleling themselves to actual freedom fighters like Gandhi et al, in comparison to them, these students are living privileged lives, they have not faced the struggles, oppression, hardships, sacrifice that revolutionaries went through the Indian Independence, the comparison is absurd.
No radical change can happen through discussions or rallies, if you seriously believe sedition is the highest moral duty for citizens, and your heart bleeds for Pak funded Kashmiri terrorists, then pick up a gun and do something about it. The army defends the state, if you really believe Kashmir is occupied by India, then the only way to "free" Kashmir is to take up arms, holding rallies and protests is going to do absolutely nothing. Do these students have the guts to take on the Indian army?
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