Dalit Teachers Face Action for Holding Discussions on Ambedkar’s Works on Varsity Campus
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 22 April 2024 | The Telegraph
A central university has forced an informal body of Dalit faculty members to stop their weekly readings and discussions of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s works on the campus, show-caused seven of the teachers, and taken punitive action against four of them.
The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya suggested the Ambedkar readings, which had started two years earlier, could endanger the “safety and health of (participating) students and reputation of the university”…