The JNUTA of JNU

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Deconstructing JNU, Admission, Student, and the JNUTA

It is said, and wisely too, that if you are not paying for some product, then you are the product. By building the argument around this line, I will discuss the case of JNU, Admission, Student, and JNUTA. The student metaphorically becomes a product in JNUTA’s resistance, if not the revolution, against the administration. The students are employed as the “foot soldiers” by these professors, from Left or Right does not matter. The students, on the contrary, are nothing more than blind followers of their master’s order. Their wit and consciousness are faded against the dark enlightenment of these well-versed professors.

The second summer is near to pass in the same mode of destructive argument by these professors against the admissions for the year 2017. The students, on the opposite side, do not have the courage to check the authenticity of words that are spoken by the professors. In the lack of this authenticity, the students, to talk in the socialist language, become “cog in their wheel” that is used to gain profit, not for the sake of students but the professors. Under the blanket of student’s support, the teachers hide their mistakes, if not the guilt or to say, moral sin. This must be exposed in the same way the teachers revealed the JNU “Research Admission 2017-18.” The exposure is published on web page https://jnuta.wordpress.com that mentions “Only 53% of intake offered for admissions, and total collapse of reservations!” (Aug 4, 2017).

The astute morality and “playing down news theory” is exercised by the professors to misguide the student community regarding the less admission policy. The whole blame put on the shoulders of JNU administration, especially the VC, the first and foremost enemy of JNUTA. The allegations, charges, marches, hunger strikes and slogans created an atmosphere of chaos that most of the students failed to understand. I would not spend my time in proving the professors wrong and accept all their published words as “true.”

But, the allegations charged here by the JNUTA are severe and thus must be examined deeply and with equal concern, and even honesty. If JNUTA and its associates are right, then I would like to pose some questions if they like to answer:

1. Who checks the exam? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
2. Who graded papers? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
3. Who finalizes the merit list? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
4. Who interviewed the students? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.
5. Who finalized the “final list”? Is it administration or the professors? The answer, professors.

I hope the answer to five questions will be right. But, I suspect, if the teachers of JNU were given the task to check these question, then my result would be “FAIL.” Or, to write in the language of administration, “not qualified.”

When the professors are responsible for everything related to result, then why the tables are turned towards the management in general and the VC in particular. It is only the teachers who check, marks, grades and even finalizes the merit list. But, it is the height of moral corruption that the VC is responsible for the difference between “Intake” and “offer” seats. Is it not hypocrisy? Just compare the data made available by the JNUTA, how many students appeared in the exam and how many are qualified. To tell the truth, these seats remained unfulfilled because of these professors so called vanguard of JNU, who gave fewer marks to students. And now, when there are fewer students in the admission, they are shedding the tears of a crocodile.

If the professors are so concerned about the students, then why did not they upgrade the grades? For example, in the Russian department, as shown by the JNUTA data, a total 13 students have appeared. To increase the number of students, the professors should have passed all the students. Wait, I am blocking the way of working of teachers, or, I am telling them how to work. In fact, these teachers believe in an old phrase, “do not teach fathers’ have to make babies.” Under the hallucination of that addiction, they forget what is right for the students as well as for the University to which they claim “the best university.”

On Aug 24 again, the JNUTA issued a “Statement: On the JNU administration’s 17 August circular on the intake.” The fourth point of the statement runs thus:

“The JNUTA does not accept supervision caps for faculty based on rank.”

The statement is even funny, if not contradictory or useful for the students. It is again beneficial for the professors instead of the students. Again, the demands of JNUTA should be questioned on the ground of:

1. If JNUTA wants no cap for the different post of teachers, then why they need different salaries. The responsibility of a Professor is more than an Associate professor and Assistant Professor. Hence, there is the difference in the number of students.
2. There is another side of this non-cap trap that is demanded by JNUTA. A large chunk of Professors, only the professors, engaged in various national and international projects, an additional source of income. If they were given more students, then working for students may affect their future projects. They consider their time more important than the students (MPhil/PhDs). Hence, a cap is essential to the Professors so that they remained responsible and accountable for the students. 

In fact, these teachers will never take any moral responsibility for the failures of their duties and responsibilities. Rather, they believe in the blame game and throw their problems on others, especially the VC. It is similar like, America is responsible for the issue of Arab World. All attacks in India are sponsored by Pakistan only (focus on the word “only” and not Pakistan). Similarly, the JNU is degraded because of the VC. Thus, their most famous slogan is, this VC is humiliating the students by reducing the intake. Remember dear professors, you are also equally also responsible for the doom of this university. By beating the drum of resistance, you cannot clean your moral sins that are committed against the student community in last one year.

In a blame game, if one wants to save oneself, then other is projected as the enemy. In the politics of blame game, one has to find a common enemy, and that is the VC, that quite regularly named as Sanghi-VC. Once one decided who the enemy is, then one has to hammer hard that enemy through one’s critical stones. All is done to save one from the wrath of critique. It is similar like that of the partition of India. Both, Hindu and Muslim massacred each other, but the British took a safe passage towards England. Similar again, Hitler is an enemy as he killed millions of Jews in a Concentration Camp, but Henry S. Truman who ordered to drop the Nuclear Bomb on Japan is a promoter of peace. One forgets, both killed human but on different land, time and place. In fact, it is a game on popular demand. And in popularity, the JNUTA sees the Sangh as the enemy. So, it attempted, and successfully too, to paint the VC in the Bhagwa colour. However, by doing this, it is explicitly rejecting what it had done to the students in the previous session. This is JNU of today in case of registration only. It is just a pseudo-fight in the name of rights but for whom? Who will take the moral responsibility?

The foot soldiers will never question the professors, that reduced them nearer to the neo-modern slave, the victim of destiny.