Editorial: SAU South Asian No More
10 March 2025 | DT Next
The slow dismantling of the South Asian University (SAU) in New Delhi validates two criticisms that fit like a glove to the ethnonationalist government in power in India: One, that the Modi regime takes delight in wrecking educational institutions with a secular culture, and, two, it doesn't care about its own Neighbourhood First foreign policy.
News from the SAU campus in recent months confirms that the Indian right-wing is following its Trojan Horse playbook to corrupt and obliterate the university's founding charter of free-mingling South Asian scholarship and turn it into a playfield of Hindu cultural nationalism….