We all have seen the wanton destruction and arson the students have engaged in, in the OU campus at Hyderabad. The behavior of the students is highly objectionable. They seem to have anything but academics in their mind. I am seeing lot of articles, condemning the police for whatever little action they have taken. If Hyderabad has not suffered largescale arson and wanton destruction of public/private property, then it is precisely of the pro-active action that police have taken and confined the students to just the OU campus.
Make no mistake, your rights as a student comes with responsibilities and expectations. Your singular responsibility is to study when you are in the campus. Anything other than that is not a right but a privilege. Similarly, Prof Kothandaram needs to realize that he is there in the campus to teach and not to head the JAC provoke/incite the students. If you want to do all these things then by all means get out of the campus go to your homes and then do whatever you want. They all want to exploit the location and OU facilities, often at tremendous cost due to destruction by the students, but at the same time police shouldn’t enter and set them right, as they would do to any other member of society who indulges in such abominable behavior.
As if right on cue, lot of human right/NGO industry springs up and takes up the case of human rights violations. You have a right to agitate, but you do not have a right to disrupt someone else’s life or steal their own right, which in many cases is just going about their dreary lives for the common public.
I would urge the courts and “self appointed” human rights activists to keep the rights of the rest of the society also in mind.
OU == Osmania University
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