Silent Universities, Collapsing Republics: When Thought Becomes a Crime
Deepanshu Mohan | 22 May 2025 | Scroll
On May 19, Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor and the head of political science at Ashoka University, was arrested for social media posts on India’s military strikes. Nothing in his posts violated any laws. The Supreme Court granted him interim bail on Wednesday but ordered the formation of a special investigation team to look into the “meaning of the words” in the post.
But more revealing than Mahmudabad’s arrest and subsequent bail was the instructive silence of the university…