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Watch | Scared of ‘Pluralism’? What Zoya Hasan Was Not Allowed to Say

A talk on pluralism, scheduled for Independence Day morning, was cancelled and its chief guest altered hours before the meeting.
Tarushi Aswani
Aug 17 2026
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A talk on pluralism, scheduled for Independence Day morning, was cancelled and its chief guest altered hours before the meeting.
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On Friday (August 14), two realities unfolded right before the Independence Day, when the doorbell of Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) professor emerita Zoya Hasan rang and when goons and police met each other outside Delhi’s Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV).

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Hasan talks to Tarushi Aswani, an independent journalist, regarding the incident.

This article went live on August seventeenth, two thousand twenty six, at fifty-eight minutes past eleven in the morning.

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