Recent Developments in the Crisis of Academic Freedom in India
Student protestors in New Delhi, India || Photo credit: AFP via Getty Images The Free to Think 2024 report , published in October 2024...
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Os Tyagi
Oct 232 min read
Dr. GN Saibaba, Persecuted Scholar, Passes Away Seven Months After Acquittal
Dr GN Saibaba || Photo credit: Sushil Kumar/Hindustan Times On October 12, 2024, Dr. Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, a former University of...
Ozgur Kazakli
Sep 163 min read
Censorship Leads to Resignation of Sociology Professor at South Asian University
Professor Sasanka Perera. Photo credit: Colombo Telegraph A PhD student at South Asian University (SAU) received a show-cause notice from...
Maryam Mushtaq
Apr 102 min read
India’s Hindu Nationalists Attack Muslim Students Praying on Campus
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Photo credit: News24 On March 16th, 2024, fifteen international Muslim students were attacked by a...
Maryam Mushtaq
Apr 22, 20232 min read
Muslim History Among Many Topics Removed from Indian Textbooks
Taj Mahal, Agra, India In early April of 2023, the right to education and freedom of information took another hit in India. The...
Maryam Mushtaq
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Jammu and Kashmir 2022 University Bill Threatens Academic Freedom
In late October 2022, the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Council (JKAC) passed the Jammu and Kashmir University bill of 2022 without...
Kennedy McCutchen
Jul 12, 20222 min read
International Organizations Call on Indian Authorities to Release Professor Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba
On June 9th, the International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India) initiated a petition to the Chief Justice of India...
Zeynep Guney
May 9, 20222 min read
Kashmir University Scholar Arrested for Ten Years Old Article
On April 17, 2022, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) of India, which recently created anti-terror branches in the country’s prominent...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 29, 20202 min read
Protests Bring Fear to India’s Campuses
One of India’s most prestigious universities is half-empty. Students on campus track each other on their cellphones to ensure that their...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 13, 20203 min read
Join Us in Protesting Right-Wing Attacks on Jawaharlal Nehru University
To: Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India SIGN HERE We, the undersigned, are writing to express our deep concern and shock at the...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 7, 20202 min read
Armed Masked Mob Attacks JNU students, Leaves 40 Injured
On Sunday, January 5, 2019, dozens of masked men wielding sticks and iron rods attacked students and professors at one of India’s most...
Ebby Abramson
Aug 30, 20181 min read
Indian Professor Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba Denied Medical Care
On August 29, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, professor and human rights defender, has been...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 24, 20171 min read
Indian Social Activist Bela Bhatia Threatened
On January 23, 2017, around 30 people went to the house of Indian sociologist and human rights defender Bela Bhatia in Pandripani...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 14, 20161 min read
Delhi Sociologist Faces Charges
Delhi University professor and rights activist Nandini Sundar and ten others have been summoned for murder charges in the insurgency-hit...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 16, 20162 min read
Indian Student May Be Expelled
A student leader from a top university in India charged with sedition may be expelled from campus, reports say. Kanhaiya Kumar was...
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