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NIT Durgapur professor stops students’ Chikni Chameli dance
A professor at NIT Durgapur stopped a group of students dancing to the Bollywood song 'Chikni Chameli' during an induction programme, questioning whether they had permission from their faculty advisor. The incident…
A professor at NIT Durgapur stopped a group of students dancing to the Bollywood song 'Chikni Chameli' during an induction programme, questioning whether they had permission from their faculty advisor. The incident was captured on video and shared widely on Instagram by education consultant Gourob Roy, sparking online debate.
Some social media users backed the professor, arguing the song was inappropriate for a formal institutional event. Others criticised the intervention as excessive moral policing and said the professor could have spoken to the students privately instead of publicly confronting them.
The professor also asked whether the performance was meant as an introduction or just entertainment, and noted that junior students were present. The video has divided opinion, with no official statement from the institute so far.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Engineering college induction programmes are meant to welcome freshers and introduce them to campus life, but they also operate under institutional guidelines on decorum. NIT Durgapur, like other central technical institutes, requires student events to be cleared by faculty advisors, partly to ensure content suits a mixed-age audience that includes juniors and visiting parents. The professor's public intervention, rather than a private word, is what drew most criticism. The question for the institute is whether its code of conduct on cultural events is clear enough to prevent such confrontations from escalating on campus or online again.
Source: timesnownews.com
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