Democracy Must Thrive in Universities, Not Just Parliament: Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi

Addressing Japanese academic and civil society leaders, Dr Abhishek Singhvi called universities the true guardians of democracy and urged for deep reforms in education.

- TDG NETWORK

Speaking to a large gathering of Vice Chancellors of Japanese Universities, administrators, diplomats, distinguished professors and eminent members of civil society in Tokyo, Japan, on Universities of the Future, Dr Abhishek Singhvi, fourth-term MP and eminent jurist, said that if democracy is to endure not just as a ballot-box ritual but as a way of life, then its beating heart must lie not in Parliament alone, but in our universities. The Minister of Education of Japan also attended the lecture.

He called universities the unsung laboratories of liberty, the unheralded nurseries of the Republic. It is there, he said, that the grammar of inquiry as much as of dissent is learned, the alphabet of citizenship is practiced and the poetry of pluralism is composed.