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...