Trump’s Attack on Academia: An Unsettling Reminder that it’s Happened in India and Elsewhere Before
Raheel Dhattiwala | 27 April 2025 | Scroll.in
US President Donald Trump’s aggressive clampdown on academia over the past few weeks has brought back not-so-fond memories. His bullying tactics instilled renewed relevance to my own experiences in the last decade of the Indian right-wing’s explicit bias towards its academic critics, the West’s implicit bias towards non-white scholars – and the universal indifference of many academics on the left amid the singling out of critical scholarship…