Recently in a meeting of the statutory bodies of the University of Delhi (DU), the administration tabled a 'vision' document titled the Strategic Plan (2022-2047), and a draft Institutional Development Plan, that are to serve as roadmaps for the University's future functioning and institutional priorities. It is expected that these would serve as a template for other public-funded universities to emulate since DU is one of the largest teaching and research institutions of the country. In the backdrop of declining public funding for higher education, the new policy documents of DU push for collaborations with industry and corporates. This entails the complete restructuring of a public-funded university. With the University's teaching-learning process and research being made subservient to the agenda and profits sought by private interests, the autonomy of knowledge production and dissemination that wider society requires of public-funded universities in India is completely undermined. A dangerous trajectory of enhanced commercialization and colonization of the academic world by domestic and foreign capital looms large, and manifestations of it are already fast unfolding. Consequently, the aims of education and the research agenda of the country are increasingly sought to be set by the dominant ruling ideology and market forces.