Reflecting on the last few weeks Chandan Gowda  05 May 2024 https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/reflecting-on-the-last-few-weeks-3008224 

Reminiscent of the powerful anti-Vietnam War student protests of the 1960s, these episodes of students striving to make their universities conform to high ethical standards have tacitly called out the moral unacceptability of the US government’s support for the Israeli violence, a stance that violates the liberal political values it claims to uphold in the country. ..

There is, of course, no taking the mind off the ongoing Lok Sabha election, which is witnessing the basest forms of electioneering -- the majoritarian appeals, the Muslim-phobia, the smear campaigns, all of which are taking India’s political culture to a new low. Might the lack of a pro-democracy student movement in India, which was last seen in the country decades ago, have brought about this unhappy state of affairs?