Summary:
Kanhaiya Kumar, former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students’ union, is yet to be cleared of the charge. Change cannot happen because of individual charisma, it is possible only through collective effort. We need to look for class in caste and caste in class. There had been a resurgence of radical youth politics, especially after the suicide of Rohit Vemula, the JNU episode and the Una incident. In Kozhikode to attend the Kerala Literature Festival, he spoke to A.S.
Jayanth on the status of the case and the state of youth politics in India..