Amit Sengupta was the President of the JNUSU during the bright years of students movement in the country. At present he is Editor (Commentary and Analysis) with Tehelka weekly. One of our students Manish Tiwari had a conversation with him about looking at the JNU from outside after so many years.

I remember of my days at JNU and I recall the students days in early eighties. Those were the brightest years of the student politics in JNU. Then I recall the protests and the students mobilization after the murder of Chandreashekhar. Entire Delhi was blocked for about ten days, more than 10,000 students from all over the country gathered in Delhi. Though it did not have any immediate success, it created waves across the nation, it transcended all divided-region, caste, religion, political affiliations and even ideological

I would say that students of JNU have always been argumentative. Socialization at JNU is very fast and in few months, new students learn and inculate JNU culture. Politicization is very fast, students start feeling concerned about every issue around them and a giant all kinds of injustice and inequalities. And the majority of students is like that. Their values are very strong, they are independent and progressively thinking. Every year new students inherit long tradition of adventure of ideas, great intellectual insight, committed progressive politics and values of equality of gender, class and social status.
JNU have the faculty which is best in the world in their respective areas and subject. They are genuinely concerned for the students and for the cause knowledge. Though they are small in number, but I have hopes from them only.

I have hopes from the students of JNU who are concerned for different causes, though their number is not very large, but they are the true inheritors of the legacy of JNU.