'Whom is this campus actually for?': Students of TISS Resent Curbs on Debate
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 15 March 2024 | The Telegraph
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), considered a liberal institution, has come under criticism from its own students’ union for allegedly becoming a shrinking place for academic debate.
The students’ union has issued a statement to allege that the institute has refused to allow students to hold academic debates and questioned students trying to organise such events.
Two students said the institute recently did not allow them to hold an academic discussion at an annual fest organised by students of northeastern states on the campus. Some students had last month invited Magsaysay award winner Bezwada Wilson to speak on the scourge of manual scavenging, but the institute did not allow it to be held in the face-to-face mode.
The students said the institute was trying to crush debate on the assumption that such activities might critically analyse the Union government’s policies….