She says that when she entered the college around 10 am on 20 January, she was met with hostility and taunts by fellow students.

“I saw a group of 35-40 students, all belonging to Left outfits like AISA and SFI. They looked at me with hate, taunted me and even followed me to the venue.”

“They were holding a lot of placards. They were written in Urdu and I could not decipher what the placards said,” she says.

“When I reached the venue, I was surprised to see some journalists already there. The anti-CAA crowd had gathered DU student reporters too. Such is their ecosystem. On the other hand, I and my batchmate were completely on our own.”

Sharma says that a few faculty members approached her and requested her to cancel her talk to avoid a “clash”.

“I stood my ground. I in turn insisted that the faculty should not only let me go ahead but encourage me. I argued that it’s always people like us who are made to shut up where Leftist students always have their way,” she says.

Videos show that Sharma began her talk by telling a thin gathering that the purpose of the meet was not to raise any slogans but to share a simple message that Kashmiri Hindus kept ‘education above guns’.

She then read out the letter.

In between, however, a crowd began to raise chants to interrupt the talk and malign the gathering, she says. “They began shouting ‘Islamophobia Islamophobia’, ‘Jai Bheem Jai Bheem’, ‘Savitri zinda hai zinda hai’ and ‘Periyar zinda hai zinda hai’. They were bullying and heckling. They wanted to shut us up,” she says.

Sharma broke down but continued to read out the letter.

After Sharma shared the video on social media, many users said it shows the “hypocrisy” of the “Leftists”.