Jadavpur University found itself in the midst of violent clashes and protests after right-wing leaning filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri screened his film open-air on the university's campus. The film, a political drama, called Buddha in a Traffic Jam, had run into trouble earlier in the day when its screening at the university's Triguna Sen auditorium was allegedly cancelled. That is when the organisers of the screening decided to screen it open-air.



Vivek Agnihotri had put up the following post on Facebook on Friday morning.
Vivek Agnihotri :
