Thread by @suchitrav

This is where we are:
Law school asks Shilpa Singh, an assistant professor to explain her method/material of teaching, after members of ABVP,complained that she “promotes socially hateful thoughts about a particular religion, community and group of people” indianexpress.com/article/cities…

The topics ABVP found four topics offensive. 1. ”teachings of Manusmriti”. 2. Rohith Vemula)3. M M Kalburgi and Dabholkar (rationalists and activists who were murdered) 4: ”issues with a response to a particular query on beef” the prof had shared.

”Since Monday, Singh has begun to record her online classes — as they now form “evidence of her style of teaching”

The surveillance logic will now govern everything.

“The college is also probing how virtual classroom footage was recorded and leaked. “Only the medium has changed. Classroom still is the same, so is its sanctity,”

I know teachers who fear that their class lectures will be recorded and used as evidence of AntiNational behavior

What is Anti National? Well almost anything is now anti national.

More form the report: “It’s possible in the class (that) teachers and students may disagree. If the student is not happy, again there are mechanisms available.”

“In this particular case,” Tripathi said, “what disappointed the most was that we did not hear a student directly but through a third party – a politically affiliated group using a language which is highly intimidating.

Critical politics and conservative politics is taught in classrooms all over the world. We have a strong reason to believe that the point was not academic, and was to scare (the teacher). For us, it’s worrisome if teachers get scared; then that is the end of the classroom.”