TITLE :

On the Idea of a University

AUTHORS :

Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Brototi Roy and Meena Yadav

ABSTRACT :

The thought of a “University”, as we have experienced it as a part of the University of Delhi through the 70s, conjures myriad images and associations: a place for the pursuit of knowledge, learning, multiplicity of disciplines, teachers, and students from across the world, coffee-tea addas in cafes, campus life, a space for experiments in independence through selfdiscovery, debates, dialogues, politics, a threshold of a new world full of infinite possibilities, dreams, transformation for social justice, and much more.
This idea of a university has its roots in the late 1960s in Europe. This era was a landmark in the history of universities. It was marked by the turmoil of the civil war in the U.S.A., the Vietnam War, the human rights movement, the hippie movement, the Black rights movement, and student movements – particularly the hugely influential May ’68 movement that began in France, the impact of which was felt widely over time.

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.52253/vjta.2022.v03i02.01

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