In the last week, as most students at SIPA have been struggling with finals, many Indian students have also been gripped with horror as our country fights a brutal battle to preserve the democratic and secular values it was founded on.  Many student orgs at SIPA signed a statement expressing their solidarity with Indians who were protesting the CAA both at home and abroad and condemned the government’s discriminatory policies. Conspicuously missing from the list of signatories was the South Asian Association.

We stand in solidarity with University students across India, including the ones who faced police brutality at Jamia Millia Islamia University and Aligarh Muslim University, as well as citizens who are exercising their democratic right of protesting the Islamophobic Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the internet bans that have curtailed freedom of speech in Kashmir and across the country.