Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar: Two ex-JNU students in new Modi cabinet

University of ‘greats’

So the subversives are now part of the government. So much was said to revile, run down and generally disrespect Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as an institution: The place where people supposedly spend more time politicking than studying (and engage in less reputable pursuits, as well). But out of the four member cabinet committee on security, the government’s highest policy-making body, two are students of JNU. S Jaishankar did an MA, MPhil and PhD from the university before he was selected for the foreign services. Nirmala Sitharaman was also a student there and did a masters in economics.