“As we have seen in the recent controversy that surrounded JNU, the right-wing forces used nationalism as a moral weapon to morph the expression of the critical voices. Gopal Guru, 'Taking Indian Nationalism Seriously' Image Courtesy Harper Collins Publishers India We present some extracts:Įdited by Rohit Azad, Janaki Nair, Mohinder Singh & Mallarika Sinha Roy on behalf of JNUTA To mark the first anniversary of the attack, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) is releasing a compilation of the lectures, titled What the Nation Really Needs to Know: The JNU Nationalism Lectures. The massive outbreak of protests in February 2016, in the wake of sedition charges being filed against some students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, took the form not only of sloganeering, human chains and streetplays, but also a lecture series on nationalism, attended by thousands of students, every day for almost a month.
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