A Court in India upholds 2-year suspension of scholar from TISS - Tata Institute of Social Sciences who criticised government educational policies - through bizarre reasoning that using the logo of the institution on a poster amounts to violation of an honour code freespeechcollective.in/do-students-ha…

InSAF India has released a statement in support of students & academics being targeted in the USA for exercising their 1st amendment rights to free speech & political views. We welcome the relief given by the US court to Badar Khan Suri’s deportation. academicfreedomindia.com/post/indianspe…

Hear Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach, professor at FAU Germany, present findings from the 2025 #AcademicFreedomIndex at the Center for International Human Rights Center for International Human Rights on March 27, 1:30PM - 3PM EST! Register now with CUNY JJC Graduate Studies! jjay-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

UGC’s 2025 Draft Guidelines: The Corporate-Hindutva Takeover of Higher Education? countercurrents.org/2025/03/ugcs-2… via @countercurrents

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South Asian University has terminated Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya, without any due process. The admin is taking advantage of immunity from judicial system to suppress freedom of speech & expression. Embarrassing that other faculty members are too scared to even condemn this.

I must write this down before the night devours me. My father’s friend, a poet and a guardian of words, the son of a family that owns the oldest library in Gaza, that sacred house where history and imagination slept together like weary brothers… he is leaving. Yes. Leaving. He

‘LSR not for anyone to insult, destroy’: Outrage at DU college after ex-diplomat’s alleged sexist, communal remarks Lady Shri Ram College students, professors, and alumni condemn retired IFS officer Deepak Vohra’s speech. #LSR #DU Read more at: buff.ly/WGjctZP

Now we have full and part time guest faculty. Guest faculty is anyway supposed to be part time in nature. This is a different level. But then let's glamorise the life of an Assistant Professor.

Federation of Central Universities Teachers' Associations ( FEDCUTA) and Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association ( JNUTA) release statements in solidarity with Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya of South Asian University, condemning his arbitrary termination from the varsity.

101 former students of Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya write to South Asian University administration to revoke his unjust and arbitrary termination. News-report in Hindustan Times Hindustan Times + alumni letter 👇🏽 hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-n…

The whole world is watching the injustice happening to Umar Khalid. Story in The Guardian today. theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…

We are reaching out to seek your support in endorsing a collective appeal to the SAARC Secretary General against the arbitrary termination of Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Economics at South Asian University (SAU), Delhi.

मुझे आज, 'साहित्य, विज्ञान और सामाजिक चेतना' पर IIT, BHU के LIT Club की तरफ़ से आयोजित प्रोग्राम में बोलना था। सुबह ईमेल खोला तो पता लगा प्रोग्राम कैंसिल हो गया। वजह जानने की कोशिश की, पता चला कि वही पुराना राग है: एक फैकल्टी मेम्बर ने मेरे नाम को लेकर एतराज़ किया और फिर आयोजकों

Oindrila Dasgupta Scholars at Risk’s new report warns of a global crisis in academic freedom, with both authoritarian and democratic governments undermining universities through violent crackdowns, forced disappearances, restrictive policies; once typical of autocracies. thewire.in/education/indi…

In addition to documenting attacks on #highered, #Free2Think2025 provides key recommendations for how policymakers, advocates, and scholars can protect at-risk scholars and why global solidarity is key to protecting #academicfreedom. Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free…

Shrinking space of academic freedom in South Asia and the world while India is one of the worst places notwithstanding its claims to democratic governmenance thewire.in/education/indi…

Krishna Kumar (formerly at #CIE #DU and former Director, #NCERT) Indian Express, 04/10/2025

The Hindu, 05/10/2025