clashesNew Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Academicians from universities across the globe, including Coulmbia, Cambridge, Trinity College and New York University, have condemned the recent Ramjas College clashes as "State-tolerated violence". "The issues that will matter to them long after the political leadership in the country has passed on," they said. "We stand against the rule of state-tolerated violence on college campuses," the statement said. The signatories include professors from Columbia, Cambridge, University of Pensylvannia, University of Toronto, Trinity college, University of California, New York University and University of Göttingen, among others. Their agenda is to close the Indian mind and destroy intellectual flexibility and we stand against it," the statement added.

Source: India Today February 28, 2017 13:41 UTC