Who is Francesca Orsini, the JNU and London University scholar denied entry at Delhi airport?

Professor Francesca Orsini, a UK-based scholar of Hindi and Urdu literature at SOAS, University of London, was recently deported from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport over alleged visa violations. Holding a PhD from SOAS and a BA in Hindi from Venice University, Orsini has studied in India and taught at Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy, she specialises in multilingual literary cultures of South Asia and has authored several acclaimed academic works.

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