Just in: FTII director issues a notice to students asking them to call off their strike. The notice says that the students may be expelled if they do not call of the strike.


Students of India's premier Film and Television Institute are on strike for the last 34 days over TV actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as chairman. They want the appointment cancelled.


The students have questioned Chauhans creative credentials and whether he has the requisite vision in guiding the institute that has been earlier helmed by internationally-renowned luminaries such as Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Girish Karnad, U.R. Ananthamurthy, and Shyam Benegal, who have graced Indian theatre, cinema and literature.


Many view the appointment as an attempt by the Narendra Modi-led BJP government to foist its right-wing agenda upon the institute.


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