Dear Vice Chancellor sir,
I just got to know about the orders released from your administration, I am sorry for my poor English skills, what to do I study Indian languages. Anyways according to this order JNU students can’t watch a movie/ documentary which isn’t issued an Indian censor certificate. Dear Sir! I beg your pardon but this University is known for its intelligence and rationality not for Censor board guidance. If I accept your logic that means we (JNU students) wouldn’t be able to watch movies like Fahrenheit 9/11(dir. Michael Moore), Final Solution (dir. Rakesh Sharma) , Paanch(Anurag Kashyap), The Bicycle Thief (dir. Bergman) as they weren’t released in India. I personally believe that every artist and Individual has a right to express his views, we can debate on that, we can agree or disagree on that, and for your kind information Sir! For us JNU is family not some mob or something. I don’t know whether you had been to a shop named Magic Lantern, close to Nehru Place (Delhi), or not which sells all kind of documentaries, my only question is who will decide which movies should we watch and which should we ignore. If you yourself want to decide this then why don’t you shut down schools like School of Languages & School of Arts and Aesthetics as tomorrow you will decide that we should read PAASH (a revolutionary poet of Punjabi) or not. Why don’t you release another order of banning sales of books by Prof. Chaman Lal and Arundhati Roy, and do one more thing in that succession that Vidrohi ji should also be thrown out of JNU(He sits on Dhabas and recites his poetry about Indian civilization and satires on Gandhi Topi in some meetings, isn’t it Sir? ) as these people disturb and raise questions.
Sir! In that order it is also stated that we should not organize any mess meetings (dining hall meetings) which might disturb the national HARMONY & PEACE. Sir! Can you tell me which meeting disrupted the National HARMONY & PEACE in past few years? And if meetings disturb the HARMONY & PEACE, then we should not talk about the dangers of Hindu fascist (as I am a Hindu and my sentiments might be hurt, isn’t it Sir!) we should not talk about the Budget, neither debate on 84 riots, nor Gujarat, nor on Pune Panthers, nor on the problems and corruption in NREGA as we came to study here and hell with that if our PhDs are entitled on NREGA or Communal problems in India and the writings of Rahi Masoom Raza ; National Integration and Harmony are the most important things, Isn’t it Sir ? Sir! I am really sorry as I thought that we learn more in mess meetings and on Dhabas than in class rooms in JNU ; it’s all the fault of my senior students who showed me so many dreams about JNU, I will question them for sure in next JNU alumni meet .
We are so fortunate that we have such a multidimensional, multi disciplined Vice Chancellor, who is expert in everything as our dear Himesh Reshmia. Sir! I have a request to you I want to ask some questions about Kabir to you and you can also let me know whether my PhD topic is a threat to National Harmony and Integration or not?
Thank you Very much
Vivek Kumar Shukla, Centre of Indian languages, JNU