New Delhi: Francesca Orsini, a London-based scholar of Hindi and South Asian literature, was denied entry to India at the Delhi airport Monday night despite holding an Indian visa valid for another five years.

Peter Kornicki, her husband and emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge, confirmed the incident with ThePrint, saying that the Indian immigration authorities did not offer her an explanation for their action, but that she is on a return flight to London via Hong Kong, instead of a direct Delhi-London flight.

Responding to an email, Professor Peter Kornicki said Professor Orsini’s passport had been withheld at immigration early Tuesday at 00.38 am, when he last spoke to her. “We had a brief telephone conversation (around 20.08 UK time) after she was refused entry: no exp

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