Dehradun, Jan. 8 -- It is an old joke, but communicates a message. Once a Seth was being driven in his Rolls Royce and the driver stopped at a petrol pump to refuel. The Seth asked the driver if the car had run out of petrol.
"The car ran out of petrol some miles away," the driver answered.
"Then how did we get here," asked the surprised Seth. "The last few miles we ran on the Rolls' reputation," was the answer.
Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University has been running purely on its reputation for a very long time now. Sunday's violence is not an isolated incident - the only time the institution is in the news nowadays is for the wrong reasons. It is no use to dredge up individuals of eminence who might have passed out from the varsity thirty...