Excerpt from the article written amidst AMU-Jinnah row.

May 5, 2018.
(Disclaimer: This is not to support or oppose any ideology. Analysing the past is the easiest job to do, but it should viewed in totality, not in isolation and present must not be made to bear the wrath of past.)
Open your 'indriyas', Universities are not destined to be battlefields.

Some issues must be addressed. They must be talked over despite all their controversies and disagreements. The AMU and Jinnah row is one such case. Everyone out there is passing opinion about Jinnah. There are some who are making there mind after reading from a few places, while there are others who have their past observation to reach a conclusion. There are people on both the sides. It's interesting to see India debating over a person who is a villain for every Indian heart out there. This deepens my belief in our value that gives us freedom of expression to the level incomparable.

I don't know whether or not should I deal with it. But my friend, heart never works in isolation with rest of the body. Try involving other parts of your body too. Vedas have a concept of 'Indriya', not only the five sensory ones, but they are fifteen. Five of each 'gyanendriya, karmendriya and antarendriya'. The Bhaarat, of which you have been advocating all these years has a long tradition of 'samvaad'. Try getting your senses, rather indriyas active. India has believed in the language of love. If not, then atleast laathi was not our tool.

I too believe that Jinnah was culprit of mother India. But try to think the situations then. The partition, I feel, was inevitable, Jinnah was a tool only. Imagine yourself on the other side of the border... Does the scenario not change? Were others on this side of the line not equally responsible? Who was to be blamed if the things would have turned the other way. Can you imagine the extent of massacre in case they would have not divided us. Yes, in pursuit of our unified India.

There are times when it becomes tough to chose a side. But there are those times too when not choosing a side is a better choice. History is easy to interpret. Even the worst student in history can give a decision on past events and hence I would like to take you back to September 23, 2017. The night that any student in Banaras Hindu University can hardly ever forget. If asked today, anyone can tell that those students too were silly on their part. I've never participated in any protest here, be it of any degree or extent. But the scene that I witnessed at the BHU gate on the first night of the protest was different. Even those students whom I hardly had seen outside their books in two and a half years were chanting slogans. Probably they were the ones who believe in virtues like liberty, honesty and justice. Every common student joined the protest because they had their own flame of anger within them. They had all different sorts of causes for their frustration towards the system.

We keep on babbling about the young India. But is the laathi a solution to the frustration of your generations? Will it not take it to another level? And then there are people who give arguments like students selling themselves because they were being bribed through 'pizzas'. I wonder to the level of their understanding of affairs. I think that they must rethink over it because those who were in the protest are only students yet, they have not reached their level that they will switch their loyalty for a few slices of pizza and a bottle or two of water. And then, was there any pizza actually?

To the matter of AMU, I feel that we must talk over the issue. Those who were being lathicharged were students. There might be dissent over a person. There might be a consensus over removing a poster.  But Please! Don't spoil our generation in turn! It'll be a price too higher to pay...