NEW DELHI: Nitasha Kaul, an Indian-origin UK-based professor claimed that she was denied entry into India and was deported to London, referred to as her expertise, “harrowing” and urged folks to suppose “beyond walls of hate against those different from you.”Kaul was reportedly invited by the Karnataka authorities to take part as a speaker within the two-day ‘Constitution and National Unity Convention -2024’ organised on February 24 and 25 however on the Bengaluru airport, she was despatched again to London.In accordance with her, the entry was denied due to her opinions on “democratic and constitutional values”.Defending herself, the professor took her X account and stated, “Re all the lies, I am not married to a Pakistani, not Muslim convert, not a pawn of China, not a puppet of West, not a commie, not a jihadi, not Pak sympathiser, not terrorist supporter, not anti-India, not part of a gang. I am what authoritarians fear- a thinking woman.””I urge you to think beyond walls of hate against those different from you. And to read and understand what I say and think, before rushing to condemn. It’s hard but it’s possible,” she added. Who’s Nitasha Kaul?Nitasha Kaul is a Professor of Politics, Worldwide Relations, and Vital Interdisciplinary Research on the College of Westminster in London, UK. She can be the Director of the Centre for the Examine of Democracy (CSD) on the College of Westminster in London.She has written her first e book titled ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with identity/difference’ in 2007. Born in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur, Kaul’s origin is from a downtown mohalla in Srinagar, Kashmir, in keeping with her submit on X.Kaul has obtained funding and honours for her analysis; two of the latest are the “Small Seed Funding” from the Westminster-Smithsonian Partnership Growth Fund (2023–2024) and the “Research and Knowledge Exchange Award” given by the College of Westminster’s College of Social Sciences in January 2022.What Nitasha should say about this?After a 12-hour journey from London to Bengaluru, Kaul took to X to share her expertise of spending a number of hours at immigration, the place she was shuttled and given little details about the process.”I spent 12 hours in a flight from London to Bangalore, several hours at immigration where they shuttled me here & there, provided no info on process, then 24 hours in a holding cell (no BA flight back until next day) under direct cctv w restricted movement, a narrow area to lie down and no easy access to food and water, made dozens of calls to airport for basic things as a pillow and blanket, which they refused to provide, then 12 hours on the flight back to London,” she stated on the X. “The govt at centre in India refused me entry to a conference where I was invited by the state govt. Unless this is fixed, I join the ranks of the Tibetan exiles and Ukrainian exiles, and others throughout history who have faced the arbitrary exercise of brute unreasoning power,” she added.
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