Nitasha Kaul is an Indian-origin professor at UK's University of Westminster. Kaul took to her social media profile on Sunday night (IST) to share that the Goverment of India had cancelled her Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) the same day for for "indulging in anti-India activities".
"IMPORTANT NOTE - I received a cancellation of my #OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) *today* after arriving home. A bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of #TNR (transnational repression) punishing me for scholarly work on anti-minority & anti-democratic policies of #Modi rule", Kaul said on micro-blogging website X, sharing a cropped image of the official letter from the Government Of India.
The part of the letter shared by Kaul read, "...And whereas it has been brought to the notice of the Government of India that you have been indulging in anti-India activities, motivated by malice and complete disregard for facts or history.Through your numerous inimical writings, speeches and journalistic activities at various international forums and on social media platforms, you regularly target India and its institutions on the matters of India’s sovereignty."
Who is Nitasha Kaul?
Reportedly, Kaul’s origin is from Srinagar, Kashmir. She is said to be born in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur. Nitasha Kaul is a faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. Kaul graduated from Delhi University's Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), and completed her master's and PhD from the UK's Hull University.
In a trailing post, Kaul referred to the incident from last year when she was deported within hours of landing at the Bengaluru airport, and called it an insult to the non-BJP Karnataka state government that had invited her.
"Modi BJP govt humiliated themselves & insulted non-BJP Karnataka state govt that invited me last year by ill-treating me & in spite of my 20,000 word response to their ridiculous inanity about ‘anti-India’, they have chosen to do this by a rigged process."
Kaul is author to multiple books, including “Residue,” “Future Tense,” and “Imagining Economics Otherwise.”
