Universities reach out to Kashmiri students

As the trust deficit widens between Kashmir and heartland India, several universities are making an extra effort to reach out to Kashmir students with university professors organising group lunches and holding counselling sessions for Kashmiri students, writes Prashant K Nanda for Livemint.

Along with his academic responsibilities at Aligarh Muslim University, Professor Rahat Abrar is among many professors at the university who are making an extra effort to soothe the concerns of students from Kashmir post the abolition of Article 370 and the subsequent communication restrictions in the valley.

Some Kashmiri students have expressed their concerns though they are not willing to speak publicly against the Indian government. “Article 370 gave us a different identity and that has gone now. It’s an emotional issue and universities cannot help us get over this,” said a Kashmiri student studying in Delhi.
Full report on the Livemint site