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.
A report by entrepreneur network TiE has revealed Delhi-NCR has 7,039 start-ups while Bengaluru has 5,234. Amitabh Kant urged the city’s rich to invest in them.
Contrary to naysayers, the RSS practices what it preaches. It is closer to the Gandhian teaching of improving the individual morally and spiritually to change the external environment.
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.
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