Sukanya Shantha | 01 October 2023 | The Wire

Mumbai: A major ruckus broke out at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal after several students opposed the institution’s decision to host right-leaning speakers at the two-day event ‘Young Thinkers’ Conclave’. The event where “wokesim” and “the Bhartiya ways of law and governance” were to be discussed became a place to villainise many India’s foremost academics and political thinkers.

Posters calling eminent thinkers “Ravaanas heads” were put out outside the conclave venue. Among those villainised were academics like Kancha Illaiah, Romila Thapar, Wendy Doniger and Irfan Habib, among others. Many books with provocative titles like ‘Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression’ or ‘Tipu Sultan: Villain or Hero?’ were also sold at the event venue. Students also pointed to objectionable panel discussion around pronouns used by the queer community.

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