Crackdown, Suspension, Invitation to Probe: The TISS Playbook of Curbing 'Anti-National' Activity
Sukanya Shantha | 21 April 2024 | The Wire
For the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, participating in protests for a better education policy, being critical of the government, having political views contrary to the establishment or forming a student group on campus are all ‘anti-national’ activities.
The institute, better known as TISS, has suspended a PhD scholar and asked law enforcement agencies to launch an investigation against him for participating in a protest organised in Delhi early this year.
In a letter dated April 18, the TISS administration noted the suspension of Ramadas Prini Sivanandan, a PhD scholar from the Development Studies department at the Mumbai campus of TISS. He has also been debarred from entering any of TISS’s campuses for that period…