Mihir Shah taught a popular course on Political Economy of India’s Development. Ashoka University students & alumni have started a reinstatement petition.
UGC to ask govt to clarify if all 19 institutions recommended by expert panel, including 9 flagged by the IB, can be granted the Institute of Eminence tag.
Pay parity’ is so last century as a feminist slogan. What we should ask for is ‘price parity’. It’s as if the entire retail universe is rigged against us.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
People who use phrases such as tukde tukde and urban Naxalite to attack others reveal how little they understand about governance. My advice for such people would be to channelise their frustration with life into something more useful for society. Academic environments require unrestrained engagement with ideas and their assumptions. That includes capitalism, socialism, Marxism etc. It is very very important to doubt everything if one is serious about studying ideas for their own sake
It is unclear what ia going on here. On the one hand, the VC of this University is a known urban naxalite and a tukde tukde gang member. On the other hand, Mihir Shah seems like a lefty bureaucrat. Is he not “tukde” enough for Ashoka’ administrators?
I feel myself lucky not to have gone to a liberal arts University and become a naxalite. What amuses me is government junkie leftists working in private universities.
Shameful. This is not Hindu state. Today Modi targetting Muslims tomorrow they may target sikhs. Sikhs joined India on the assurance of Gandhi and Nehru. It is better to have separate state of Sikhs now. Why should Sikh stay with India, when it’s not secular. Let Hindu live in hindu rashtra peacefully and let sikhs also enjoy separate state in which all secular person can live happily.
Where the Hindu Muslim issue in this? Where is Modi’s involvement in a decision taken by a private institution?
Pal Singh’s comment is highly objectionable. Most Indians will not agree with his comment. Hindus and Sikhs are cousins and have strong social bonds.
It is better to have separate state of Sikhs now
Ask from Pakistan if you have guts. Bulk of Sikh state including it’s capital Lahore, prior to annexation in 1849, was in present day Pakistan
You have to give Sikhs the land where they live. Present day Punjab can be given to Sikhs. Farm laws will be solved.
Post 2014, everything is being linked to Modi Govt….. There are plenty of faculty in all the universities who have socialist and communist mindset….. It’s not possible for a PM to go to the micro level and pressurise the university to discontinue the services of a Professor…. Inspite of the fact that the present VC of Ashoka University Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a strong votary of Gandhi Family and critical of Modi Govt…. And if The VC is bowing to the pressure of Modi Govt then you should criticize VC in unequivocal terms also….. But the writer has made Govt a Villain in the episode without any concrete proof…. The hold of the Communists in faculties across India, is so strong that any action, howsoever genuine, invites criticism….. And the writer after writer find the platform at ThePrint to air their biased approach through it with the connivance of its owners…. Which is most of the time Anti Modi…. Not Anti Govt…..
People who use phrases such as tukde tukde and urban Naxalite to attack others reveal how little they understand about governance. My advice for such people would be to channelise their frustration with life into something more useful for society. Academic environments require unrestrained engagement with ideas and their assumptions. That includes capitalism, socialism, Marxism etc. It is very very important to doubt everything if one is serious about studying ideas for their own sake
It is unclear what ia going on here. On the one hand, the VC of this University is a known urban naxalite and a tukde tukde gang member. On the other hand, Mihir Shah seems like a lefty bureaucrat. Is he not “tukde” enough for Ashoka’ administrators?
I feel myself lucky not to have gone to a liberal arts University and become a naxalite. What amuses me is government junkie leftists working in private universities.
Shameful. This is not Hindu state. Today Modi targetting Muslims tomorrow they may target sikhs. Sikhs joined India on the assurance of Gandhi and Nehru. It is better to have separate state of Sikhs now. Why should Sikh stay with India, when it’s not secular. Let Hindu live in hindu rashtra peacefully and let sikhs also enjoy separate state in which all secular person can live happily.
Where the Hindu Muslim issue in this? Where is Modi’s involvement in a decision taken by a private institution?
Pal Singh’s comment is highly objectionable. Most Indians will not agree with his comment. Hindus and Sikhs are cousins and have strong social bonds.
It is better to have separate state of Sikhs now
Ask from Pakistan if you have guts. Bulk of Sikh state including it’s capital Lahore, prior to annexation in 1849, was in present day Pakistan
You have to give Sikhs the land where they live. Present day Punjab can be given to Sikhs. Farm laws will be solved.
Post 2014, everything is being linked to Modi Govt….. There are plenty of faculty in all the universities who have socialist and communist mindset….. It’s not possible for a PM to go to the micro level and pressurise the university to discontinue the services of a Professor…. Inspite of the fact that the present VC of Ashoka University Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a strong votary of Gandhi Family and critical of Modi Govt…. And if The VC is bowing to the pressure of Modi Govt then you should criticize VC in unequivocal terms also….. But the writer has made Govt a Villain in the episode without any concrete proof…. The hold of the Communists in faculties across India, is so strong that any action, howsoever genuine, invites criticism….. And the writer after writer find the platform at ThePrint to air their biased approach through it with the connivance of its owners…. Which is most of the time Anti Modi…. Not Anti Govt…..
Agreed
Good to see the Management weeding out the Thukde Thukde lumpen elements from their faculty. This infestation runs deep, India needs a McCarthy.
It is a question of a few days .. when the new Government is formed his reinstatement will happen .