Friday, June 13, 2025

Topic: Nitasha Kaul

Academic Nitasha Kaul’s OCI status cancelled, ‘punishment’ for questioning policies of Modi govt, she says

Indian-origin British academic Nitasha Kaul on Sunday said her Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status was cancelled, alleging it was a response to her scholarly work critical of the Narendra Modi government’s “anti-minority and anti-democratic policies.”

Acclaimed academic of Kashmiri origin, Nitasha Kaul, not allowed to enter India, detained and deported to London

Nitasha Kaul, a British writer of Kashmiri descent and a politics professor at the University of Westminster in London, alleged that she was denied entry to India on the orders of the Union government, “for speaking on democractic and constitutional values.”