'A Dangerous Trend': Global Group of Indian Students' Organisations Condemn Campus Violence
05 March 2025 | The Wire
The International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India, a group of organisations of students at various institutions across the world has released a statement condemning the legal violence on educational campuses in India.
It is signed by SOAS Bla(c)k Panthers, the SOAS Ambedkar Society Progressive South Asia Collective (Purdue University), the Prof. G.N. Saibaba Study Circle, the India Labour Solidarity (UK), the Oxford South Asian Ambedkar Forum (OxSAAF), other indias (Netherlands), the South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), and the Canadian Forum for Human Rights and Democracy in India.
We highlight two recent incidents in two of Delhi’s most reputed and progressive universities, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Milia Islamia University, as illustrative of how the now clearly evident patterns of an escalating neoliberal Hindu supremacism are dismantling the fundamental principles of education as it emerged in post-1947 India. The goal of preparing citizens committed to social justice and equity, whatever role they occupied in their professional and personal lives, was crucial to a republic freed from the exploitations and humiliations of British colonial rule….