Proud To Be "Sanghi VC Who Took JNU To Highest Ranking": Vice Chancellor
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Ms Pandit, who spoke at length about her life from the time she was born in St. Petersburg in Russia to growing up in a middle-class South Indian family in Chennai, said she feels proud to be called "the Sanghi VC who brought the highest QS rankings for JNU".
JNU was never "anti-national" or part of the "tukde-tukde" gang, the university's vice-chancellor said today, asserting that the institution will always foster dissent, debate and democracy.
In an interaction with Press Trust of India editors at the agency's headquarters in Delhi, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, who is the first woman vice-chancellor of the university, said the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is "not saffronised" and there is no pressure from the central government in its day-to-day functioning.
Ms Pandit, also a JNU alumnus, however, admitted that the campus was polarised when she took over and termed the phase as "unfortunate". She claimed that there were mistakes on both sides (students and administration) and the leadership erred in handling the situation.
