In the wake of the growing coronavirus crisis, 25th March 2020 saw a pan-India lockdown being strictly enforced across the country, initially for a three-week period—which was further extended several times, either uniformly nationwide or on a state-by-state basis. As was expected, this led to tremendous hardship for a large swathe of the country’s population. Amid all this, the education sector in India was unduly affected in several ways. Now, nearly a year on, there is still no clarity on when educational institutions will be able to open and function “normally”. This paper delves into various aspects related to the way COVID-19 lockdowns affected the education sector in India, universities especially. Offering a multiplicity of perspectives, the objective of the paper is to provide a balanced viewpoint on the way several dynamics of the COVID-19 lockdown in India panned out, especially the challenges that it presented to Indian universities. Following the methodology of interpretivism research philosophy, the paper relies primarily on secondary—yet credible sources of data for providing its perspectives. These especially include a multiplicity of online news sites and other publications that have been gleaned over extensively before providing pertinent information. Additionally, social media sites have also been tapped widely for this paper. While perspectives on such sites are frequently opinionated and subjective, a plethora of them when taken in tandem work towards providing a holistic set of beliefs centred around the primary theme of this paper. For data analysis, a thematic analysis has been used for identifying consistent themes gleaned from secondary data that has been obtained as described above. The findings of the paper point towards significant challenges faced by all stakeholders in Indian universities, with no clear resolution in sight, in the immediate future. As the ongoing vaccination drive intensifies, the challenges faced by these universities are likely to resolve gradually, over a prolonged period.