Although students and faculty members are trying to put behind the controversy and are starting afresh, the lack of teachers is causing problems not just to the students but also to the teachers. According to S K Kushwaha, the officiating faculty member for Arts, History and Aesthetics, "We are trying our best to finish the course of the MA (Art History) students and have invited two visiting faculties to cover critical parts of the course for MA (Art History)."

It was not long ago that students of MA (Art History) and faculty members were reportedly at loggerheads but now as Kushwaha says, the same set of students are attending all the classes. Some of the students, on the condition of anonymity, said that only 20 per cent of the course was done till the beginning of February and it was only in February second week that the department came up with the new routine with two guest lecturers. "The first one was by Milind Malshe, a faculty member of the department of social sciences and humanities of the Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai, who would be covering the course on critical thought spanning across the philosophy of Plato to post-structuralism of the late-nineteenth century in a ten-day crash course. There would be another crash course on critical writing by the head of the foreign languages department of Pune University, Professor Nitin Gupte," said one of the students.

Elsewhere, the department, which is facing a crunch situation due to the lack of teachers, has now appointed the same faculty member, Rita Sodha as temporary lecturer, who was suspended because of her support to Chandramohan during the controversy. "Although we advertised vacancies for the teachers, very few teachers actually came forward because of the damage done to the department and the faculty as a whole when the controversy erupted," said Kushwaha. A lot of changes took place to the course structure during Prof Shivaji Pannikar's tenure which now is difficult for us to cope with as we have few teachers," he added.