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Join us for the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture with Yogendra Yadav. 📅 Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 🕑 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST 📍 Location: Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St, Providence. Title: Reclaiming India’s democratic republic

Beyond military ops, how does one craft a more long-term response, that doesnt just seek revenge or retaliation, but works as a deterrent in short term and seeks to change patterns of cross-border behaviour in the long term? My piece The Hindu thehindu.com/opinion/lead/n…

Govt Advisory on Removing Content From Pakistan Is Sweeping Censorship, Doesn't Tackle Misinfo, says Apar Gupta thewire.in/media/mib-advi…

I want folks to reflect on the logic which the government is following on the flow of information. 1. Indian news channels ran programming for hours last night reporting that the Indian Navy had been deployed and had bombed and destroyed Karachi Port. 2. Indian news channels ran

Civil society stands with academic under political attack In a public letter, scholars and activists denounce the summons of Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad as a move to punish dissent. frontline.thehindu.com/news/freedom-s…

Professor Khan's social media post is about discrimination, and while he has been arrested, there is a Minister who used communal slurs at a public rally on the same issue, who is running free. scroll.in/latest/1082481…

While multi-party, multi-faith delegations of MPs will go abroad to assert India's message of unity and secularism, government must check its domestic messaging too.

Full Text of Ashoka University Professor Ali Mahmudabad's Posts that Haryana Police Calls ‘Sedition’ thewire.in/rights/full-te…

How will members of the all-party delegation explain this arrest to the world? ⁦Shashi Tharoor⁩ ⁦Asaduddin Owaisi⁩ ⁦Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳⁩ scroll.in/latest/1082481…

This is shocking and must be condemned unequivocally

The Faculty Association of Ashoka University strongly condemns the arrest of Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, on 18 May 2025, on groundless and untenable charges. 1/-

NOTHING in Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s FB post that is remotely offensive, let alone seditious. Yet 15 Haryana cops barged into his home at 6:30 am & arrested him in front of his pregnant wife. The post is below. Let’s see how much space Sonepat jail has.

Sad that it needs to be said.

Our beloved colleague ⁦Ali Khan Mahmudabad⁩’s book is titled, “Poetry of Belongings,” which he ends with the following couplet by Mahbub: “I will gather twigs once again from this garden to build my nest/ For my home was set ablaze and I have all the time in the world." ❤️

This tribute to @mahmudabad by two former students is beautiful, moving, and fully deserved. The highest compliment a teacher can receive. That said, this isn’t why he should be released today. He should be released because he committed no crime. the-edict.in/post/learning-…

Opportunity for lexicographers: The court told the Haryana police chief to form a special investigation team to look into the meaning of the words that Mahmudabad used. scroll.in/latest/1082607…

If there’s one thing you want to read on SC order in Prof Ali Mahmudabad case, this is it. Inimitable Gautam Bhatia says it, as should be said.

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#CaseInPoint | Rather than confronting the dubiousness of the FIRs or offering categorical relief to #AliKhanMahmudabad, Justice Surya Kant’s bench has chosen to cloak an absolutely punitive approach in the garb of liberty. Saurav Das writes. frontline.thehindu.com/society/suprem…