SRFTI’s answer to dissent has been punitive: rusticate students, suspend classes, empty hostels. A demand for campus safety after an outside group’s entry has become an ugly contest of brinkmanship in West Bengal. Diktat can’t be dressed as discipline. A key arts institute mustn’t become another site of right-left impasse.
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