RESEARCH-Protesting Too Much

easy appeals to caste and communal or even 'national' sentiment. If the entire outcome of what has been happening in Rajasthan University, not only the latest tragedy but the earlier horrifying incident of the rape of a student and the manner of its disposal, is to be to adversely affect the ruling BJP's prospects in the elections to the state assembly, as that party's secular antagonists are so enthusiastically predicting, then the most pessimistic prognoses of the difficulties in the way of change for the better in different spheres, education as much as other, would appear to stand buttressed.