Anti-National Campaign Will Take Forward The Ideology Of Hindu Nationalism?

The crackdown on Jawaharlal Nehru University and the aggressive campaign with focus on its “anti-national character” is part of a Sangh Parivar plan to capture university spaces in order to take forward the ideology of Hindu nationalism. 

- Ajoy Ashirwad Mahahprashasta And Divya Trivedi

Again I’ve returned to this country where a minaret has been entombed. Someone soaks the wicks of clay lamps in mustard oil, each night climbs its steps to read messages scratched on planets. His fingerprints cancel bank stamps, in that archive for letters with doomed addresses, each house buried or empty. Empty? Because so many fled, ran away, and became refugees there, in the plains, where they must now will a final dewfall to turn the mountains to glass. They’ll see us through them—see us frantically bury houses to save them from fire that, like a wall caves in. …

“We’re inside the fire, looking for the dark,” one card lying on the street says, “I want to be he who pours blood. To soak your hands. Or I’ll leave mine in the cold till the rain is ink, and my fingers, at the edge of pain, are seals all night to cancel the stamps.” The mad guide! The lost speak like this. They haunt a country when it is ash. Phantom heart, pray he’s alive. I have returned in rain to find him, to learn why he never wrote. Taken from “The Country without a Post Office”,—Agha Shahid Ali, 1997.