O.P. Jindal Global University Students Suspended for Distributing Magazine in Campus, Students on Hunger Strike
Countercurrents | 30 July 2023
A group of students from O.P. Jindal Global University Sonipat, distributed a magazine called “Nazariya”, an English language magazine focused on issues of working class, farmers, students, and intellectuals within their campus and have been suspended for the same. On 28th July 2023, the students were told to remove their stall by the university administration. We were told that this was because the stall coincided with another event occurring on campus which would “confuse the students” about the two events. The other event was a welcoming event for incoming freshers while this was a magazine stall, both occurring in different areas of the campus. When the students questioned the logic behind this approach, they were heckled by campus security who snatched three copies of the magazine, claiming that the content was “objectionable” and that they will take the copies to “inspect its content.” The stall was then forcefully removed.