A REIGN of terror prevails in Delhi University, with students, non-teaching staff and teachers being denied their right to protest. The university today has the most authoritarian regime in its 90 years history that threatens teachers and others with dire consequences and wage-cuts if they seek justice and resolution of their demands by holding dharnas, demonstrations or a day’s strike. College principals are being forced not to let their halls to teachers or non-teaching employees’ unions to even hold their general bodies. This never happened in the past. This regime humiliates, browbeats, rebukes and threatens even the college principals, departments’ heads and professors who question it. The regime is in no mood to learn from history and the recent international events about the dictators’ fates.