Censorship – Academia

The Kuki Students’ Organisation, Delhi & NCR (KSOD & NCR) has strongly condemned the unjust and politically motivated exclusion of Dr. Seilen Haokip from the Delhi University Literature Festival 2025.

The organisation claimed that his removal from the panel discussion “The Great Game East: The Northeast Cauldron” after pressure from Meitei groups spreading fabricated allegations, is not just an attack on one individual but a blatant act of academic censorship that reinforces the ongoing persecution and suppression of Kuki voices.The Kuki Students’ Organisation stated, “Delhi University, as an institution of global repute, is expected to be a sanctuary of free speech, open discourse, and intellectual inquiry. Instead, it has bowed to external pressures and compromised its own credibility by preventing a key stakeholder from speaking on an issue that directly affects his people.”

By silencing a Kuki representative, DU has unofficially endorsed the persecution, discrimination, and suppression of minority voices, it said.