State Against Seminars: Administrative Siege on Academic Freedom and Critical Dialogue
Jatin Mathur | 06 November 2025 | The Wire
The Delhi University administration last week ordered the cancellation of an academic seminar scheduled as part of the Friday research colloquium series at the Delhi School of Economics (DSE). The speaker, Dr. Namita Wahi, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, was scheduled to speak on constitutional changes and judicial interpretations of the right to property.
The seminar, titled ‘Land, Property and Democratic Rights,’ had been organised as part of the Department of Sociology’s ‘Friday Colloquium’ series and was to be held on October 31…