Starting in February 2016, a protracted struggle has taken place on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, pitting the students and their faculty supporters against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Administration of the university. The protestors’ issues chime with the desire to leverage justice that drives this issue. This piece presents one senior scholar and one early career scholar blogging about these events.
Articles by Shirin M. Rai
Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at University of Warwick. Her current research interests are feminist international political economy, gender and political institutions, and politics and performance. Her recent publications include New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy (with Georgina Whalen, 2013), Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2014) and The Grammar of Politics and Performance (with Janelle Reinelt, 2015).