Second Professor Quits as 'Democratic Backsliding' Row Continues to Roil Ashoka University
15 August 2023 | The Wire
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Close on the heels of the resignation this week of economist Sabyasachi Das from Ashoka University following the political controversy triggered by one of his recent research papers, a second professor in the economics department, Pulapre Balakrishnan, has put in his papers.
While Das was an assistant professor, Balakrishnan is a full professor who joined the private university in 2015 after working at Oxford University, the Indian Statistical Institute, the Indian Institute of Management in Kozhikode and the World Bank. He is the author of several well-regarded books, including most recently India’s Economy from Nehru to Modi, published by Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University in 2022.