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Uni Students Protest As Academics Quit Amid Row Over Freedoms

Mar 18, 2021 | Pratirodh Bureau
Student Protests Dissent

FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator displays a placard during a protest to show solidarity with the students of New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university after police entered the university campus following a protest against a new citizenship law, in Bengaluru on December 16, 2019

Students and staff at an elite university on Thursday demanded the reinstatement of a prominent academic, who they say was forced to resign in an attack on freedom of speech.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India’s best known intellectuals and a vocal government critic, resigned from the private Ashoka University, north of the capital New Delhi, on Tuesday.

His decision led to the resignation of a second prominent academic on Thursday and protests at Ashoka, founded in 2014 as an Indian alternative to the U.S. Ivy League colleges.

“We strongly condemn the conditions that led to these resignations and the lack of transparency from the university,” a statement by the university’s student body said, demanding Mehta be reoffered his position.

Mehta – a former vice chancellor and hugely popular figure at the university – did not respond to a request for comment, and the reasons for his resignation have not been made public.

A group of students protested against Mehta’s resignation at the campus on Thursday, according to emails and social media posts.

The second academic to resign, Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, said the news regarding Mehta was “troubling”.

“The circumstances involving the ‘resignation’ of Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who is not just a dear friend but a truly inspirational national figure, have devastated me,” Subramanian said, according to a copy of his resignation letter shared between fellow academics and first reported by the Indian Express.

“That even Ashoka — with its private status and backing by private capital — can no longer provide a space for academic expression and freedom is ominously disturbing.”

Subramanian could not be reached for further comment.

The university’s current vice chancellor, Malabika Sarkar, did not respond to a request for comment.

Critics have accused the Modi government of trying to suppress dissent. Earlier this month, a U.S.-based think-tank downgraded India’s democracy from free to “partly free”, drawing fury from New Delhi.

The government rejects the allegation and said it did not need approval from foreign organisations.

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