The US should reach out to India and, as a fellow democracy, take some tips on how to quell sponsored protests and get universities back to what they should be doing—learning and researching read more It was the summer of 1969. Universities across the United States were on the boil. The late 1960’s saw large anti-war demonstrations across the campuses, and the unrest had only spread. The University of Berkley in California, in particular, had become the epicentre for student protests. On May 15, 1969, the Berkeley police department clashed with protestors who were trying to occupy a vast, unused...