Academic freedom outside/inside prison walls
Reflections on speaking at an advocacy event by the University of Oslo’s MA in Human Rights students
When Children Participating in a Play Becomes a Crime
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 …
Marking four years of the unjust incarceration of Gulfisha Fatima
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.
Solidarity statement for Palestine by InSAF India
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.
Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom: A Call for Solidarity
This joint statement has been endorsed by over 130 signatories, including international academics, activists and civil society organizations, as well as diasporic Indian academics and researchers, working with Adivasi (indigenous) communities in India. Available in 6 languages (English, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Panjabi, Malayalam)
Solidarity statement with Sabyasachi Das and the faculty of Ashoka University by the international academic community
statement of solidarity with economics scholar forced to resign from Ashoka University due to critical research on electoral manipulation
"Hopefully waiting" writes Shoma Sen from prison
This handwritten note by Shoma Sen marks five years in prison for the activist and academic.
Letter from G.N. Saibaba to his wife (15th June 2023)
Letter from Dr. G.N. Saibaba sent from Nagpur Prison to his wife on 15 June 2023
Two poems by Sudhir Dhawale and Surendra Gadling
Poems written by Sudhir Dhawale and Surendra Gadling on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of their incarceration under the Bheema Koregaon/Elgar Parishad case. Free BK16!
