The English and Foreign Language University Hyderabad authorities have denied Booker Prize winner and activist Arundhati Roy the permission to address students on the campus on Monday, March 10. Roy was invited by the student organisations to speak on the topic ‘Fractures of Indian Ideology Re-imaging Democracy and Re-drawing Resistance’ on the first death anniversary of Kashmiri student Muddasir Kamran. Kamran, who belonged to Valley’s Pulwama district, died in mysterious circumstances in the campus last year. Eflu student organisations DAMSA, SIO, TSA, MSF and PDSU, in memory of Kamran, had organised a talk and had invited Roy. “On March 4, the five student organisations submitted a request to the university to allot Room No. 1 on the ground floor of ...

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