How âProgressiveâ Social Media Disrupts Real Progress â The Case Of Rashmi Samant
by Devika Dinesh - Mar 5, 2021 05:00 AM
Rashmi Samant.
Rashmi Samant is only the latest in a long line of victims of cancel culture.
This pattern of heated public backlash over the slightest provocation have ended careers, and wreaked havoc in the lives of many.
On 11 February 2021, history was made at Oxford University when it elected its first female Indian student union president, Rashmi Samant. Within a week, she handed in her resignation.
What went wrong?
Hailing from the coastal district of Udupi, Karnataka, Samant is a first-generation university graduate.
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