India, March 12 -- The 16th Neera Desai Memorial Lecture, originally scheduled to be held at Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University, is set to take place outside the campus after the university cancelled the event citing "technical reasons." The lecture by noted historian and feminist scholar Uma Chakravarti will now be held on March 14 at Shivaji Mandir in Dadar.

The programme is being organised jointly by the Maharashtra Stree Mukti Parishad and the civil society platform Mumbai 4 Peace. The memorial lecture had initially been planned in collaboration with SNDT Women's University. However, after the university withdrew from hosting the event, civil society groups stepped in to organise the programme independently.

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