‘Admin doesn’t want bad press’: Liberal Arts Universities Are Clamping Down on Dissent
Sheena Sachdeva | 4 July 2024 | News Careers360
“They will cut your resources, defame you, do a character assassination, bully you and physically stop your movement on campus. Similarly to what happened with Rohith Vemula,” said Dalit scholar Ramadas Prini Sivanandan, who has been barred from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai campus, for participating in a protest organised by United Students of India in March. Sivanandan was referring to Rohith Vemula who took his own life in 2016 after facing action at the University of Hyderabad.
At TISS, since last year, many speakers invited for the institute’s annual Bhagat Singh Memorial lecture like Bezwada Wilson, Harsha Mandar, and Aishe Ghosh have received backlash from the administration. The lecture is organised by the independent Students Organising Committee…