'This is thuggish censorship': Cambridge, NYU, Columbia condemn Ramjas clashes

February 28, 2017 19:14

Academicians from universities across the globe, including Coulmbia, Cambridge, Trinity College and New York University, have condemned the recent Ramjas College clashes as state-tolerated violence.

In a joint statement, the academicians said no progress is possible in a country if the young people are not permitted the full freedom to discuss difficult and pressing issues.

The ruling partys student wing -- ABVP -- has been emboldened to intervene violently in any attempt by students to have open discussions about matters that the Sangh Parivar deems to be inappropriate. This is thuggish censorship. We stand against it, the statement reads.

It alleged that the Sangh Parivar wants to use reforms to college admission policy and to the policies on student life as a way to engineer the student body.

They want to disallow progressive politics and allow only the politics of violent cultural nationalism. Their agenda is to close the Indian mind and destroy intellectual flexibility and we stand against it, the statement added.

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