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C.P. Rajendran is an adjunct professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru; he is the author of the upcoming book, The Rumbling Earth – The story of India Earthquakes, to be published by Penguin Random House. All views are personal You're reading this article from The University Grants Commission (UGC)’s directive to universities and colleges in the country to install the Union government’s Beti Bachao Beti Padhao logo on their premises should be treated as another attempt to curtail academic freedom, which is already under siege. This is not a one-off incident. Such diktats from the government have been sent previously too. Earlier, they were asked to conduct activities such as generating awareness on G-20 meetings and Swachhatha campaigns. As a repeat of such directives, the UGC, in a letter of December 1, required the colleges to create selfie points featuring the Prime Minister. While the government’s insistence that academic institutes act as carriers of their

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