IB Team at Ashoka University Asked if Paper on 'Democratic Backsliding' Was a Solo Effort: Reports
23 August 2023 | The Wire
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New Delhi: The Telegraph in a story on the front page titled ‘Academics, Opposition MPs shocked over reports of Intelligence Bureau visit to Ashoka University’ quotes Dr Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US, as telling them, “We have now gone beyond the absurd.”
Ashoka’s governing body initiated an inquiry on the paper, writes The Telegraph. Das’s senior colleague Pulapre Balakrishnan quit, and said he did so because “academic freedom was violated in the response” of Ashoka University to Das’s paper.