Without reading them, how can you have an idea of this project which has overrun India and is attractive to many minds?Ī syllabus is not a set of propaganda material. Savarkar and Golwalkar are the most significant proponents of this ideology. Hindutva is a political reality of our times and we need to understand how it works intellectually. That having Savarkar in the PG course of political science would pollute the minds of the students was an absurd idea.
How can a scholar who had made Savarkar part of the syllabus be allowed to head DU, she asked. She informed me that she had managed to stop a problematic academic from being considered for the post. Approximately 15 years ago, when the UPA was in power and DU was looking for a new VC, I bumped into a leader of a communist party. This controversy reminded me of an unrelated incident. So, the VC had to form an external expert committee, which has apparently suggested that it be removed from the third semester.
