Linked below are the contents of an issue of Café Dissensus on "The Idea of the University".
Guest Editorial: What ‘Use’ is the Liberal Ruse? Debating the ‘Idea’ of the University by Debaditya Bhattacharya
Manufacturing Unfreedom:
The Commoditization of Education by Prabhat Patnaik
Neoliberal Savagery and the Assault on Higher Education as a Democratic Public Sphere by Henry A. Giroux
Shadow-Images of a Factory: The Contradictions of the University as a Service Industry by Nandini Chandra
The University and the Banality of the Everyday
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Staking a Claim Against the Macrostructural Unconscious by Peter McLaren
What if, the University is a Parrot’s Training? by Anup Dhar
Sectoral Trappings by Debarun Sarkar
(A)politics in/of the University?
Is there a Calling on the Left? by Prasanta Chakravarty
Don't Study, Be Happy by Vijay Prasad
In Support of Students’ Political Activism by Anand Teltumbde
Converging Struggles and Diverging Interests: A look at the recent unrest in universities: Hany Babu MT
A Marketplace of the Mind
The Crisis of the Public University by Supriya Chaudhuri
Of Utopias and Universities by Ania Loomba
Academic Freedom and the Ownership of Knowledge by Lawrence Liang
Public Good, Private Interest, and Histories of Privilege
Audit Cultures and the Indian University as Credit-Capital by Rina Ramdev
The University in Question by Ari Sitas
Lineages of the Modern Public University: Perils and Prospects in a Comparative Perspective by Mushahid Hussain
Of Feudal Intellectual Capital: The History of the New Provincial Universities by Debaditya Bhattacharya
Antinomies of ‘Autonomy’
The Idea of a University and the Invention of Culture in Colonial/Post-colonial India by Mosarrap Hossain Khan
The Presidential Transition by Paramita Banerjee
University: The State’s Kitchen? by Akanksha Ahluwalia, Ishan Mohan, Sagar Sachdeva
Living and Learning at the University: Studentspeak by Saiyem Iftekhar
