Dr Prakash Shah, Reader in Culture and Law at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), discusses the implications of the protests at the University of Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru University, in a piece titled 'The battle for the Indian mind' for Times Higher Education. He writes: “When confronted from within and outside academia about how academic work on India sits uneasily with evidence and experience, South Asianists reveal their confusion, conflating their narrow intellectual horizons with the actual state of India.”