Hyderabad, May 14 -- Two distinguished Kerala universities, Kerala University and the University of Calicut, recently banned seminarsrelating to Kashmir and the Pahalgam terror attack, citing that they pose a "serious threat to national security."

Kerala University's Department of Tamil had planned a seminar on May 9, titled 'Friday Literary Circle.' Organisers shared an article ahead of the event that accused the Union government of manipulating nationalist emotions, especially ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections. The piece was titled "Pahalgam attack: Truths drowned in nationalist frenzy" and appeared on a Tamil-language website.

When it was brought to Vice Chancellor (VC) Mohanan Kunnummal's notice, he demanded a written explanatio...