{"id":434,"date":"2014-03-07T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/kashmiri-students-safe-in-india-radha-kumar\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:45:00","slug":"kashmiri-students-safe-in-india-radha-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kashmiri students safe in India\u2019: Radha Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>India is a vast country and people of Kashmir should understand that Meerut is not whole India.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RADHA-KUMA-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RADHA-KUMA-1.jpg\" height=\"306\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> Describing expulsion of Kashmiri students from Subharti University as unfortunate, former interlocutor Professor Radha Kumar<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">said that it was ridiculous that instead of embrassing and consoling these students, Vice Chancellor of the said University over reacted and forced them to leave the campus. \u201cThe issue could have been resolved amicably but the \u2018inexperienced\u2019 VC mishandled the situation while Uttar Pradesh government acted in haste and charged the students with sedition,\u201d Radha Kumar told Srinagar based news gathering agency CNS adding that Constitution of India has guaranteed Freedom of Speech to its citizens and everyone has right to express himself in his own way.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Radha Kumar said that it is a wrong notion that Kashmiri students are not safe in India. \u201cOf course they are safe and secure everywhere in India. Thousands of Kashmiri students are pursuing their studies all across India and they are enjoying a good life,\u201d she said adding that Kashmiri students should also behave properly and not hurt the sentiments of majority community.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Responding to a query, Radha Kumar said that there is no place for hate-mongers in Indian democracy. \u201cThere are certain examples before us when police acted promptly to maintain communal harmony in the society and arrested initiated action against Praveen Togadia and Varun Gandhi,\u201d she said adding that Kashmiri students who were expelled for cheering Pakistan are still young and they lack maturity.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">She said that India is a vast country and people of Kashmir should understand that Meerut is not whole India. \u201cEverywhere people receive different kind of treatment. Kashmiri students should feel secure in India and they should realize that India is a unity in diversity and there are people of different temperaments in every part of the country,\u201d she said. (CNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is a vast country and people of Kashmir should understand that Meerut is not whole India. Srinagar: Describing expulsion of Kashmiri students from Subharti University as unfortunate, former interlocutor Professor Radha Kumar&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;said that it was ridiculous that instead of embrassing and consoling these students, Vice Chancellor of the said University over reacted and forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}