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'.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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.