Indian universities are pretending everything is normal as the world around them is collapsing
Are the country’s educational institutes responding to the cries engulfing them? Representational image. | Manjunath Kiran / AFP
I write this with deep anguish hoping that our vice-chancellors and heads of the higher education institutions will listen to a common teacher. Every day we hear news of our colleagues dying, dying because they could not get oxygen support in time or because they wasted time running from hospital to hospital. It is heartbreaking to see young colleagues, in their 30s and 40s, dying. Many more are struggling for life.