‘No Longer an Individual's Fight’, Says Suspended TISS Scholar After Bombay HC Denies Him Relief
Sukanya Shantha | 17 March 2025 | The Wire
Mumbai: In April last year, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) suspended Ramadas Prini Sivanandan, a PhD scholar with the development studies department, for participating in a protest rally in New Delhi.
For taking part in a student-led rally, Sivanandan was accused of engaging in “political activities”. The institute called him “anti-national” because the rally criticised the BJP-led government’s National Education Policy (NEP) and even invited “investigating agencies” to take action against him….