India, Aug. 26 -- Social activist and historian Sohail Hashmi on Thursday led a walk across the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), revisiting the campus where he was a student from 1972 to 1981 and recalling the institution's formative years shaped by student movements, faculty collaboration and campus culture.

Starting from the Ganga Dhaba, one of JNU's multiple canteens, Hashmi guided a throng of students through various sites on the campus, narrating anecdotes about student activism, environmental decisions and social bonding that, according to him, defined the university. "Despite everything, it was good to be back here. When I go to my school or my undergraduate college, I do not feel the same feeling of them being my place, which J...