At long last the fiasco ended. The University is limping back to normalcy ... The agitation has ended as well, but all is not well. For the first time in the University's chequered history political interference has assumed such blatant dimensions. It is again for the first time that the Government put pressure on the University authorities in favour of the agitators. Who knows subsequent agitations on the campus may have a similar ending. The University's autonomy has been compromised and the Vice-Chancellor's status lowered as never before. Sixty valuable days of 27000 students have been lost and incalculable damage done to its student's career prospects. It is a great pity indeed that the junior doctors and the teachers and the alumni, who backed the strike and wanted the V C's head to roll, lent a willing hand in the process of damaging the AMU. It is greater pity that the Vice-Chancellor threw away a number of chances for effecting an in-house settlement of the dispute. (Source: Arif Mohammad Khan in The Nation and the World, 16 January 1999)