Author: Aankhi Sarbadhikary

At a time when institutional dissent within campus spaces is being violently curbed, the demand for governmental accountability in the face of a crumbling educational infrastructure is surely needed. Why, to state the very obvious before its opposite gets normalised: students must protest against the lack of freedom of expression at the local and institutional levels, and it must be taken up before a national arbiter to which its local counterpart is essentially accountable. That was the premise on which the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protestors, ridden by tear gas, pellet guns, internet blackouts and the blocking of strategic roads…