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Asserting his close to escaped expression, A. Rishi Kumar, a final-year pupil of Tamil Nadu National Law University (TNNLU), has refused to instrumentality down a blog station criticising the Supreme Court’s prohibition connected a Class VIII civics textbook and its determination to blacklist its authors for their notation of judicial corruption.
Mr. Kumar besides did not bow to archetypal unit from the TNNLU to delete the article, titled “The Supreme Court of India has nary Spine”, published successful his Substack blog connected March 14. His stance elicited enactment and appreciation from his chap students, and a connection of solidarity from the 2020-2025 alumni batch.
Speaking to The Hindu connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026), Mr. Kumar said that helium had resumed his classes and nary disciplinary enactment had been taken against him by the university, adding, “I had expected immoderate criticism, but honestly, I don’t expect it to spell that far.”
In the article, helium wrote, “The Court has decided, successful its expansive aged wisdom, that eighth graders, who are doing algebra and learning refractions, are simply excessively dumb to grip a basal civics section that spends fourteen pages praising the judiciary and 2 paragraphs acknowledging its flaws.
The pupil besides criticised the apex court’s determination to blacklist the 3 authors—Michel Danino, Suparna Diwakar, and Alok Prasanna Kumar—and barroom them from each enactment associated with immoderate publically funded curriculum.
TNNLU registrar S.M. Balakrishnan said that an email had been sent past week to Mr. Kumar arsenic an ‘advisory’ note, due to the fact that of respective threatening telephone calls and emails from persons claiming to beryllium lawyers from different States, urging the assemblage to instrumentality enactment against him.
“We are not going to punish Mr. Kumar, arsenic helium wrote successful his idiosyncratic capacity, and did not notation TNNLU anyplace successful his article. He is lasting up for his law values, and we respect that. There is thing incorrect with criticism, and the Supreme Court is not infallible. Mr. Kumar is simply a bully student; we bash not privation to jeopardise his aboriginal with immoderate untoward enactment arsenic helium gets acceptable to graduate,” helium said.
