“The AUD administration want some changes in the shape of the event from the faculty and we will do that and reschedule a date and place sometime in March as you can see the times are bad for the university as a place for free speech and free discussions and critical engagements in our society,” the university said in an email to the speakers of the seminar.
Gowhar Fazili, a scholar who was supposed to present a paper entitled “Familial Grief, Resistance and the Political Imaginary in Kashmir”, confirmed receiving the email.
“The institutions, academicians and activists buckle before the Right-wing threats with such ease,” he told PTI.
