JNU has, in the past few weeks, invoked much revulsion and anger from Indians all over the country. Could this (misplaced) contempt for one of India’s finest universities have something to do with the drop in the number of applicants applying to be part of it this year?
For the first time in five years, the university has seen a decline in the number of applications. It received over 76,000 applications for admission to the upcoming academic session, about 3000 less then the previous year.
Though the percentage decrease – 4.5 percent – as compared to last year isn’t alarming, it does beg the question whether the brouhaha over the JNU sedition row has somehow caused youngsters and their parents to steer clear from this so-called “anti-national” centre of learning.
We set out to the campus to ask current JNUites’ to make sense of this.
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