The faces behind the voices of the ongoing student protests at JNU

Students are against differential fees and also now demand nothing less than the removal of the Vice Chancellor

A new hostel manual has brought Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to a standstill. Protests have continued for nearly four weeks, on its famed campus and elsewhere in Delhi city with instances of students as well as teachers being lathi-charged by the police.

Since early 2016, starting with a sedition row, right-wing propaganda including by sections of the government and the media have painted JNU as a den of “anti-national” troublemakers. It’s a period when JNU’s current vice chancellor (VC), M Jagadesh Kumar, took charge. His tenure has witnessed several protests against measures that have been viewed as antithetical to the