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Have students who are studying humanities became leftists and naxals?

There is an obvious left bias in the university spaces, not just in India but probably across the world. Liberalism has been a dominant and even aspirational way of thinking and living for most of us as well (not just the university students), much due to the influence of this ideology on opinion makers like west educated academicians, English speaking elites and middle class professionals looking to be world citizens. There are some major flaws in these ideologies – rightly pointed out by the critics – that extreme left argues for use of violence to overthrow establishments, and liberalism is often, in practice, neoliberalism which favors the economically rich, and which looks down upon traditions and customs, especially religious ones. But are university students becoming Leninists-Maoists-Naxals or Neoliberal free-market monsters like the East India Company? Reading Yuval Noah Harrari, Marx, Ambedkar, Gandhi as well as listening to folks like Chomsky and Bernie Sanders could giv

Why are there increasing attacks and violence in Public Universities in India?

1. There is no real opposition to BJP in National politics, Congress is decimated and BJP's ideology is not challenged by any political party. 2. University campuses, especially where people study humanities, tend to be left leaning - left leaning, and not Anti National, Maoist, Leninist and Islamist as the regular media wants us to believe. Humanities teach us to be with the oppressed, the shoshit varg, and not with Adanis, Ambanis and Modis. 3. Liberalism, or for that matter any study of any kind, is based on critical thinking and questioning. We question about electricity and power when we read engineering, we question power structures and existing biases in the society when we read humanities. 4. Hence, the only group of people who are effectively and relentlessly questioning the Government - that is their job, and most societies take it positively - are the students, especially in Government funded (since private universities could be easily snubbed), humanities institu