Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Tuesday said he was \u201cappalled\u201d by the violence at Delhi\u2019s Jawaharlal Nehru University. \u201cI am appalled by what\u2019s going on,\u201d Sen said in Bengaluru, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Infosys Prize.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe university authorities cannot prevent outsiders from entering and creating such a bloody violence within the campus! I am also appalled that communication between police and the administration would be so delayed that ill treatment of the students could continue for some time and not been prevented by forces of law and order,\u201d Sen said.<\/p>\n
At least 34 students and teachers were injured on Sunday evening inside JNU, including the university\u2019s students\u2019 union president Aishe Ghosh. It was alleged that the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students\u2019 wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had led the attack, though the ABVP has denied it. In fact, the ABVP has alleged that the \u201cCommunist goons\u201d had attacked them, though it is not clear how how many of their members were injured and how.<\/p>\n
Sen also said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was unconstitutional and that the Supreme Court should turn it down. \u201cYou cannot have certain types of fundamental rights f human beings be related with religious differences rather than the things that really matter such as where you were born, and what the citizenship laws require you to do,\u201d he was quoted saying.<\/p>\n
Sen also said that there is need for sympathy. Speaking at the prize ceremony, he said that division between groups and sects not only damage social lives but works as barriers to intellectual progress, and added that \u201cfriendship is central to the development of knowledge\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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