DU protests: Modi govt's silence on campus violence is baffling

Through their silence, they condone and even applaud the violence

There is surely something rotten in India if a group of young men owing allegiance to the ruling dispensation can walk into a college in Delhi and beat up students and other participants in a function just because they do not agree with some of them. The group was brazen enough to announce that through their vandalism and violence they were preventing what they perceived to be “anti-national’’ activities. This is not the first, nor, one fears, will it be the last, time that the epithet, “anti-national’’, has been used to suppress free speech and to intimidate individuals and groups