She recounted an instance that was revealing of the level of scrutiny that scholars are under. “A colleague had two Indian immigration agents show up at her home in Canada and tell her she had two weeks to challenge the impending loss of her OCI status because of a rather benign article she published a long time ago,” she said. She echoed Jaffrelot’s assertion that many such instances remain hidden from the public eye. “The scale of the problem is unknown because of fears of sticking heads above parapets, and awareness that our academic institutions or governments can or will do little to protect us,” she said.