The English Department of Lady Shri Ram College, where Gurmehar Kaur is a first year student of English Honours,

has
unanimously issued the following statement today.

We, the faculty members of the English Department, Lady Shri Ram College unequivocally and strongly support our student
Gurmehar Kaur and her right to express her opinion on issues that embroil our university. It is immensely gratifying to us as her
teachers that she has responded sensitively, creatively and bravely to events in her immediate context rather than seek the safe
refuge of silence. We feel that it is the bounden duty of educational institutions to nurture sensitive, responsive and critical thinking
students without the fear of violent retaliation. We are proud that Gurmehar has fulfilled her duty as a young citizen of this country.
The threats of violence and brutality that she faces are absolutely reprehensible. Responses on social media by public figures such
as VirendraSehwag and RandeepHooda are shameful trivialization of the intimidation that Gurmehar faces at the hands of violent
mobs whose viciousness the university has recently witnessed.
We fervently appeal to the good sense of the public and to institutions of redressal to help restore our faith in law and justice in our
country and let our young citizens think and articulate without fear of intimidation.

- Rita Joshi, Madhu Grover, Rukshana Shroff, ArtiMinocha, Maya Joshi, ShernazCama, Mitali Mishra, Arunima Ray, DiptiNath,
Maitreyee Mandal, JanetLalawmpuii, Ngangom Maheshkanta Singh, Karuna Rajeev, Wafa Hamid, Jonathan Varghese,
TaniyaSachdeva, Rachita Mittal.