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Flash forward to today. LI is dead and so are student protests. A clear correlation. What can be done? Very clearly bar and bench will not take the activist role that Kian had taken.
The new batch of students that has come into the NLUs have no clue of how administrations function or how a vigilant student body should be like. The current set of SBAs/SJAs at the NLUs you mentioned are a sad remnant of their predecessors.
Their protests look like this:
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It’s also partly tha NLU fees have increased many fold over the last few years . This puts pressure on students to be conformist and not cause trouble because they want to make their investment back.
Related to this but not wholly is the problem of the NLU experience itself. It’s easier to get 60 people in your batch most of whom you know well to agree to a protest. Harder to convince 150 some of whom you don’t have classes in common with.
Also related is that the kind of students NLUs attract have changed over the years. From mostly middle class students who saw the education as a way to lift themselves out of their situation, and hence had a stake in improving their education. To students who are affluent who don’t necessarily care about education as much as a prestigious degree, and hence can be mollified and bought by sops, by lower standards.
It’s a bunch of things. Press scrutiny was important - but not the only thing tthat changed.