On the Idea of a University

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 self discovery, debates, dialogues, politics, a threshold of a new world full of infinite possibilities, dreams, transformation for social justice, and much more.