50 yrs later, the little-known story of the diaspora that defied Indira

In Sept 1975, just six months after Anand Kumar arrived at the University of Chicago, his scholarship was abruptly withheld due to “adverse reports”. Kumar, then president of JNU Students’ Union, had gone to the US to pursue a doctorate in sociology.
But instead of focusing solely on academics, he had been travelling across American university campuses, delivering fiery speeches demanding the release of JP (as the socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan was known) and calling for the immediate withdrawal of the

Emergency

in India. Instead, his scholarship was withdrawn.