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Focusing on colleges, universities, and research institutions, this page assesses how academic freedom is protected or restricted in India’s higher education landscape. It investigates issues such as faculty autonomy, campus censorship, regulatory control, political influence, and student rights. The content highlights case studies, policy developments, and ongoing debates that shape the freedom to teach, learn, and research.
Second Professor Quits as 'Democratic Backsliding' Row Continues to Roil Ashoka University
15 August 2023 | The Wire
Author of Paper on Possible ‘Manipulation’ in 2019 Polls Quits Ashoka University
14 August 2023 | The Wire
In DU History syllabus tweak, ‘Brahmanisation’ term dropped, paper on inequality withdrawn
Vidheesha Kuntamalla | 11 August 2023 | The Indian Express
CHS library at JNU won’t be shifted, say professors
Vidheesha Kuntamalla | 11 August 2023 | The Indian Express
FH lodge FIR against two Kuki-Zo academicians and Author of Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919 book
10 August 2023 | Ukhrul Times
Relocation of Library Will 'Destroy' JNU Centre for Historical Studies, Ex-Faculty Say
7 August 2023 | The Wire
After Pune teacher’s arrest: Fear and surveillance in the classroom
Avijit Pathak | 7 August 2023 | Indian Express
DU’s political science dept reinstates paper on Gandhi in semester 4
Vidheesha Kuntamalla | 7 August 2023 | Indian Express
Older IIMs kept in dark, Govt gets say in their affairs via the new amendment
Raunaq Sarawat | 4 August 2023 | Indian Express
If ‘expelled’ students submit ‘unconditional apology’, will consider their case: South Asian University to HC
Express News Service | 5 August 2023
Academics urge Health ministry to reinstate IIPS director facing defecation ‘axe’
G S Modur | 3 August 2023 | The Telegraph
Symbiosis teacher held for lecture in class, charged with hurting religious sentiments
Devanshi Srivastava | 4 August 2023 | Indian Express
MP Viswam writes to SAU, slams ‘undertaking’ for new batch of students
Vidheesha Kuntamalla | 2 August 2023 | Indian Express
What South Asian University’s undertaking for students say about the pitiful state of academic freedom in India
Firasha Shaikh | 31 July 2023 | Indian Express
Centre’s Bill dilutes autonomy of IIMs, President is Visitor
Indian Express | 30 July 2023
O.P. Jindal Global University Students Suspended for Distributing Magazine in Campus, Students on Hunger Strike
Countercurrents | 30 July 2023
Give undertaking won’t protest, have no mental disorder: South Asian varsity to new students
Vidheesha Kuntamalla | 29 July 2023 | Indian Express
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