When Indian students participate in protests or movements that don’t directly affect them, like the pro-Palestine rallies in the US, they could be risking their futures for a cause that might not have much impact on their lives.
Achinthya Sivalingam, an Indian grad student at Princeton, got arrested on April 25 for joining a protest on campus without permission. She’s studying public affairs and is in her second year.
Princeton is kicking her out after a review. She’s one of many students who got arrested for supporting Palestine at different universities.
Sivalingam and another protester, Hassan Sayed, got arrested during a sit-in with about a hundred others in McCosh Courtyard.
Even though they got released later, they can’t go back to campus, but they can stay in their dorms.
Afterward, 145 researchers and professors signed a letter asking Princeton to let them back in and erase the punishment from their records.
Getting involved in such issues, just to impress a certain group or to appear “woke,” might seem noble at first, but it could potentially have serious repercussions.
Participating in pro-Palestine rallies in the USA might seem like a way to show support for a cause, but Indian students need to understand that they are being identified, arrested, and even deported.
