News Opinion Columns From Hansraj College, to our schools, families and politics — why are we so fond of obedience? A society conditioned to obedience becomes easier to govern without accountability. Compliance can be quickly mobilised, while dissent is reframed as disloyalty or disruption Take, for instance, recent reports on Delhi University colleges that have cracked down on student protests over a range of issues, from UGC equity regulations to defamation of colleges on social media. Or, the labelling of universities such as Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi or Jadavpur University in Kolkata as “anti-national”.…