Forced Resignations, Suspensions, Threats, Imprisonment: India's Shrinking Academic Freedom
Hajara Najeeb | 29 April 2026 | The Wire
“German Universities have still not managed to come out of the shackles of the Nazi regime. That is what authoritarianism does to academia,” said Gilbert Sebastian, an assistant professor of political science at the Central University of Kerala in Kasargod in North Kerala.
The university administration suspended him in May 2021 after he called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh a “proto-fascist organisation” during an online class, and he was later reinstated after issuing a letter of regret. “There is a similar process going on with [other] universities in India,” he added…