As the Indian student movement for the right to dissent — which we’ve covered here and here — continues, Jawaharlal Nehru University professors are joining the protest in the way they know best: By teaching.
Since student activists were charged with sedition for supposed “anti-national” activities, the protests have included a daily, hugely well-attended lecture series on what, exactly, nationalism is.
Watch the below video, from JNU professor Ayesha Kidwai, on nationalism in India. As my favorite slogan goes: Learn to change the world.
And if anyone is able to include a transcription in the comments section, you would be my favorite person of the day.
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