India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi, Mar 12: After being elected the first Indian woman president of the University of Oxford’s Students’ Union, a 22-year-old student from Karnataka’s Udupi was forced to quit after some of her old social media posts that were deemed to be “racist” and “insensitive”.
Rashmi Samant, a student of MSc in Energy Systems, contested the elections for Presidency of Student Union and won the election. She had positioned herself as an “inclusivity” candidate in the election and campaigned to “decolonise” the Oxford syllabus and to remove all statues proven to be imperialist, including that of Christopher Codrington at the Conference of Colleges.
One Instagram post that showed her at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin in 2017 was captioned: “The memorial *CASTS* a *HOLLOW* dream of the past atrocities and deeds” and another photo from Malaysia captioned as “Ching Chang”.
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