INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR
ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN INDIA
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.
(Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar, 1949)
Reflections on speaking at an advocacy event by the University of Oslo’s MA in Human Rights students
Our academic freedoms are deeply rooted in the arena of public education, and we must stand in solidarity with those who are engaged in public education to ensure the longevity of our own individual and collective academic freedoms. Read more …
As Gulfisha Fatima spends another Eid in prison than with her loved ones at home, The Wire published some of her poetry and letters from prison. While mosques are being razed, locked up, eliminated, memories to be confused, overwritten, theatre, stages and streets still witness interfaith solidarity, and powerful stories of love live within and even find their way across prison walls. We reproduce a few extracts from Gulfisha’s letters in prison in The Wire – sharing these simultaneously amplifies so many thing: injustice, pain, love and solidarity, all at once.
The following statement was our contribution to the public protest meeting organised by the collective ‘Indians for Palestine’ in New Delhi on 23 Feb 2024.