Re. My last tweet on Jamia's women's studies centre, a friend shared this. I hope this is true and the centre isn't closed. Deleting my last tweet to avoid confusion.

This bullshit of constantly threatening to shut down women's studies centres needs to stop now.

They've done this with the women's studies centre at TISS, Pune University, SNDT. My m.phil advisor, an associate professor who's taught women's studies for eleven years, faces the indignity of having her contract renewed every single year.

A professor of Women's Studies at IGNOU once told me that when you're constantly fighting for survival, to keep your head above water, there's not much scope to be creative or to take risks with your work. I'm glad that even so, women's studies has remained a feminist discipline.