The episode in Delhi University on 6 November when at a seminar activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) spat on Zakir Husain College lecturer S A R Geelani was reprehensible.

The event not only shows how intolerant the communal forces are but also reveals that they have become deep-rooted in campuses and are poisoning the minds of students.