“My beloved VC... Just tell me one good thing you did since you landed foot on campus,” asks an enraged JNU student in his viral rap video slamming the university’s move of reducing seats in M Phil and PhD courses by 80 percent.
Penned in protest against Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, 22-year-old Rahul Rajkhowa, who recently completed his MA in International Relations, said, “I wrote the song after my hopes on the outcome of the 143rd Academic Council meeting were broken”.
Rajkhowa, who is the guitarist and vocalist of a Delhi-based band, Paperboat, said he wanted to take the issue to a broader platform through rap. The video titled ‘JNU Student raps against JNU VC’ has garnered around 10,000 views since it was uploaded on 9 May.