‘Liberal bastion' bid to gag activist Bezwada Wilson's lecture at Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 18 February 2024 | The Telegraph
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, which enjoys a reputation as a liberal campus, attempted to scuttle an online academic lecture that students had organised on Saturday with Magsaysay award winner and social activist Bezwada Wilson as the speaker.
The students went ahead with the lecture despite a notice from TISS authorities on Friday saying the event lacked permission and warning everyone associated with the institute to stay away from it.
Wilson, a campaigner for the eradication of manual scavenging and caste atrocities and a critic of the government, delivered the Bhagat Singh Memorial Lecture on “Human rights and constitutional values in contemporary times: Role of university and public”.