Sharing university narratives

Things went wrong when the political parties turned the students' organisations into party units.

Media people want to talk to me about the current problems at Tribhuvan University. That is an unprecedented experience for me, a "retired professor", so called in Nepali English parlance. When I receive calls from young TV journalists and newspaper reporters, I know what they want to talk about. They want to hear the opinions of a senior academic about the confusing events happening at the university locus called Kirtipur Campus where I return only once in a while. I realise that I glibly get drawn into the discussions about the situation in the university. I realise from the inquisition of the media people that the academic practice at the university is badly caught in a politicised quagmire in recent times. I also realise that there is no piecemeal solution to the problems of higher education in this country where other universities opened at different times in different regions are also going through the same kind of experience.