April 13, 2007

In India, Courage Under Fire

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

A university leader faces death threats as he works to clean up a campus ruled by harassment of professors, riots, and gunplay

Three days after Ram Prakash Singh took over as vice chancellor of the University of Lucknow in January 2005, a drunken student leader barged into his office screaming obscenities, Mr. Singh says. Rajpal Kashyap, president of the student union, allegedly smashed furniture and shattered the windows, raving against the vice chancellor's attempt to break the

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