Sahitya Akademi Row: Now, MBA Student Refuses To Accept Degree From Smriti Irani

In the wake of scores of literary figures across the country returning their Sahitya Akademi awards in support of freedom of speech and expression against the recent cases of Dadri lynching and attacks on free thinkers and writers, here is another addition. But this time the protester is a student.

Sameer Gojwari , an MBA pass-out from the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), in Kashmir, has refused to accept his degree from HRD minister Smriti Irani, as a protest against “diminishing freedoms” in the country. It was the university’s first convocation, reported PTI.

When India’s writers are returning literary awards to protest diminishing freedoms and 41 writers across the country…

Posted by Sameer Gojwari on Friday, 16 October 2015

The Union HRD minister is scheduled to lay the foundation stone of Central University Kashmir complex at Ganderbal on Tuesday, October 20.

(With inputs from PTI)

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