As a university, JNU went further by shedding its stereotype as a repository of ideological thought. The students emphasized the critical idea of citizenship as value innovation rather than a mode of certification. By juxtaposing value frames to ideologies, the University to the RSS, they showed that civility and citizenship work together, that every syllabus echoes the dreams of the Constitution, that the university is a trustee of constitutional morality. But more critically the university system, with the epidemic of protests that followed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, showed that the university was, in terms of ideas and sensibilities, an early warning system. JNU showed that concepts can be genocidal, and one needs good syllabi to keep the Constitution sacrosanct.

Source: The Telegraph January 15, 2020 21:45 UTC