Pallavi Smart pallavi. smart@ mid- day. com AMID the global panic over the novel Coronavirus [ COVID- 19], students hailing from the northeastern states, studying at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences [ TISS] have been subjected to racial discrimination across the city.

The issue came to the fore after the North East Studentsu2019 Forum [ NESF] at TISS issued a statement condemning the racial discrimination after a few instances occurred with their fellow students on campus as well as outside.