Alishan Jafri | 31 August 2023 | Coda Story

As the new semester began this week at Ashoka University, an elite private institution near Delhi, students returned to a campus that has been at the center of a loud political row sparking debates about academic freedom in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India.

On August 21, officers from India’s Intelligence Bureau visited the campus as part of what was meant to be a routine procedure to renew Ashoka’s license to receive foreign funds. But the questions that the officers asked instead concerned an academic paper that had cast the country’s ruling party in a negative light. They also questioned the “intent” of the professor who had written the paper.

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