लल्ला पुराण 166 (Education and Knowledge 10)

The motor of the history does not have back gear. Lamenting on the present with the  Nostalgia of some olden golden past is closing the eyes on the changing realities and a conspiracy against future in the same way as making programs of future revolutions is an excuse to withdraw from the present struggles. Well, Allahabad used to produce more bureaucrats than now most of whom, due to lack of will and/or inability  to go through the process of unlearning remain as learned as at the time of joining the university. For the very long Allahabad has not produced visionaries or luminaries in literature/art/science. A radical student movement is long overdue. The composition of the university is fast changing  in the post Mandal era is fast democratizing in terms of caste equations and the hegemony of the so-called upper caste in the student and teacher politics is being challenged. Therefore predatory caste mobilization among the teachers and students is nothing new. Let us not get into eulogy of some past glory, let us think, how the present may be bettered in terms of student consciousness. One thing is new, cases of teachers' abstention is said to have become a common thing.  .