Talk:Rashmi Shetty

By Anirudha Patel

Rashmi Shetty was an Education Officer at the Department of Religious Studies at Utrecht University when she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference. As of November 2022, she is an Associate Editor (Religious Studies) at Brill..

She is not an academic and does not hold a Ph.D. She fraudulently signed the letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference as a scholar endorsing the same where she made the allegation.

In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, Adivasis, and other dissident Hindus. Women in these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."