Over the past few weeks, The Commune has been reporting on how IITs in India have begun emerging as leftist dens. IIT Bombay, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Guwahati, and IIT Chennai feature in that list.
Just recently, we reported on how IIT Bombay Humanities professor Suryakant Waghmore had mocked Hindus and called vegetarianism as “casteist” and a “social illness”.
IIT Gandhinagar saw a professor supporting Hamas and separatist Umar Khalid. Yet another IIT Gandhinagar professor in the Humanities department made his MA students work on theses focusing on topics related to Islam.
Now, another case of perversion and leftist ideological thinking has surfaced, this time from a PhD scholar named Thanglienmang Haokip.
Who Is Thanglienmang Haokip?
A series of his inflammatory and perverse posts have come to light from his X handle. As per the institute’s website, Haokip has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from North-Eastern Hill University and a Master of Social Work from Pondicherry University. My research interests include agrarian studies, relationships between the environment and indigenous people, traditional knowledge and practices, tribal studies and northeast India studies. His PhD topic was Thinglhang Lou: Swidden Farming and its Continuity in Manipur
Let’s take a look at some of his perversive behaviour online that was exhibited through his social media posts.
Perverted Comments Against Meitei Hindus
Screenshots of his posts, which have been widely circulated, appear to show advocacy of extremist positions and include offensive and sexually suggestive remarks directed at underage girls belonging to the Meitei Hindu community. Here are a few examples.
He even went to the extent of mocking the rape and murder of minor Meitei girl by the Kuki militiants by sexualizing it.
In some older tweets, he couldn’t stop talking about the Meiteis in a derogatory manner which only exposed his extreme perversion.
Supporting Militancy
Haokip has been seen promoting militant rhetoric in connection with the Manipur ethnic conflict.
Thanglienmang Haokip did his PhD from IIT Gandhinagar. Funded by taxpayers.
On X, he advocated militancy in Manipur.
He also posted perverse comments for an underage Meitei Hindu girl.
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— Harshil (હર્ષિલ) (@MehHarshil) June 19, 2025
PhD Thesis, Guide & Present Work
Haokip is said to have completed his doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Ambika Aiyadurai in the Humanities and Social Sciences department at IIT Gandhinagar.
Interestingly, Aiyadurai is a wildlife conservation professor but why is she researching on caste and water at a premier technological institute?
As per her IIT Gandhinagar website profile, Aiyadurai’s area of research intersts include ● biodiversity conservation, human-animal relations, natural resources management, indigenous people and livelihoods, conservation and development. Most of her research papers are centered around the North-east. Is that the region why most of her students are also from the north east?
Another interesting information that has surfaced is that Haokip has been selected for an IKS post-doctoral fellowship for 2025-26 and the topic of his project is “Indigenous Beliefs and Practices in Northeast India: A Case Study of the Kukis” hosted by IIT Guwahati!
Nowadays, @IKS_Media under @EduMinOfIndia funds Haokip to do postdoctoral research.
At @IITGuwahati. pic.twitter.com/nYnirz3Cmc
— Harshil (હર્ષિલ) (@MehHarshil) June 19, 2025
As we dig deeper, the IITs and their Humanities departments keep throwing up muck that only prove why it was a wrong decision to bring in the social sciences into their campuses – one that has led to its complete rot.
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