Surely, Ashoka University shouldn’t meddle with the legal processes. But making sure that Prof Ali Khan Mahmudabad gets legal support doesn’t mean the institution supports his views.
Funding challenges are understandable. It takes effort to raise funds for a university. But one must ask: how much money is really traded off when a few academics stand by principle?
An alumnus of Ashoka University wrote to Sanjeev Bikhchandani, criticising the institution for its lack of moral courage in not supporting Prof Ali Khan Mahmudabad. Here's the founder's response to the alumnus, shared in an internal mailing list.
Ashoka University tried hard to project an unapologetic centrism, but it just couldn’t shake its notorious tag—JNU of the private sector. Now it's unravelling in a funders-vs-faculty battle.
The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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