The open letter is being circulated in response to Vikram Sampath’s defamation suit against three academics over their charges of plagiarism. It calls the legal action ‘predatory’.
If you choose a PB Mehta or a Ramachandra Guha, you are effectively choosing other faculty who vibe well with their own ideas, not those who challenge you.
Noted academician Pratap Bhanu Mehta had resigned from Ashoka University last week stating that his association with the institution might be 'considered a political liability'.
Chancellor and the board of trustees chairman write separate letters to students & alumni reiterating Ashoka University’s commitment to academic freedom, insist founders never interfered.
Nearly 180 academics from Yale, Columbia, Oxford universities also voiced support for Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who quit as a professor of Ashoka University earlier this week.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in his letter resigning from Ashoka University, says 'it has become abundantly clear to me that my association with the University may be considered a political liability'.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
I will assess India’s progress by checking the state of street infrastructure, street garbage, road dust, civic manners, enforcement of traffic rules, etc. Individuals are free to write a hyphen in caste and religion column. Economy is the single most factor which determines the progress of a nation, if it’s not AAA+ credit rated, then it’s a third-rate country. Good economy takes care 90% of all ills of a country. A bad economy gives rise to secularism (Indian, not Western), Hindutva, and minority appeasement.
I will assess India’s progress by checking the state of street infrastructure, street garbage, road dust, civic manners, enforcement of traffic rules, etc. Individuals are free to write a hyphen in caste and religion column. Economy is the single most factor which determines the progress of a nation, if it’s not AAA+ credit rated, then it’s a third-rate country. Good economy takes care 90% of all ills of a country. A bad economy gives rise to secularism (Indian, not Western), Hindutva, and minority appeasement.