“The campus is my home, as much as it is of every being that lives here. This is emotional for the students and us,” says Professor Sowmya Dechamma CC, an alumna of the University of Hyderabad who now heads the Centre for Comparative Literature there. She’s talking about the protests that have been raging on campus over the past few days, against the leveling of 400 acres of land in Kancha Gachibowli village, adjoining the UoH campus, an important lung space of West Hyderabad with considerable ecological significance.
