Lecture Dedicated to Activist Jesuit Priest in India Cancelled Due To Hindu Nationalists
Nirmala Carvalho | 08 August 2025 | Crux
St. Xavier’s College has cancelled its annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture in Mumbai, originally scheduled for the evening of August 9, following a protest by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organization affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organization.
The lecture, organized by the college’s Department of Inter-Religious Studies, was to have been delivered virtually by Father Prem Xalxo on the theme “Migration for Livelihood: Hope amidst Miseries.”