Maheen Haidri, a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) student from 2014-17, joined the ongoing protest by BFA students against Ahmad despite having graduated two years ago because she thought she could finally talk about her own issues. “For me, the four years I spent there were devastating only because of him. I was mentally tortured and not given the marks I deserved. Targeted and humiliated, he made my life there hell. He had absurd rules in class; he would constantly morally police us and tell us to sit in a certain manner in class, would call parents and send letters at home for the slightest of things. Not just that, I always felt like he was looking at me and a lot of other women indecently. I never got good marks despite always doing well on tests. I once discussed this with one of my other professors and he told me that he had given me good marks on that paper but when I finally saw it, I hadn’t got the marks I expected. I reached the conclusion that the HoD changed the marking. He would only give marks to students who appeased him and fed him biryani.”