New Delhi
Hindu mob attacks university: Shouting “Hail Lord Ram!”— a Hindu god—dozens of masked men stormed one of India’s most prestigious universities this week, beating male and female students and professors with rods and bricks and injuring at least 42 people. Police called to the scene did not intervene and allowed the attackers to leave without arrest. Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi has long been a bastion of left-wing, secularist politics, and many of those brutalized had vocally opposed a new citizenship law passed by the Hindu nationalist government that is widely seen as anti-Muslim. “The mob violence could not have been possible without the active connivance of the administration and deliberate inaction by Delhi police,” said the JNU teachers’ union.