A protest can be fierce without being filthy. If dissent turns into degradation, the university has failed its own purpose. What is happening to our campuses? Universities were meant to be difficult spaces — spaces of argument, disagreement, intellectual friction. They were not meant to be polite echo chambers. But neither were they meant to be theatres of abuse. Across India, academic spaces are sliding into a dangerous habit: confusing volume with conviction and insult with resistance. Yes, violence from any political camp is condemnable. That is obvious. But something subtler and more corrosive is taking root — the normalization of verbal violence. Language is being flung like debris, and we are beginning to treat it as harmless fallout. It is not harmless. Words shape political culture. Words teach habits of thought. Words train citizens. When those in power deploy contemptuous language, it is an abuse of authority. But when students mirror that same vocabulary — when dissent tur...
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