South Asian University Row: Alumni Slam Disciplinary Action Against Sri Lankan Sociologist
27 August 2024 | The Wire
New Delhi: Alumni of the South Asian University have slammed the disciplinary action against a Prominent Sri Lankan sociologist and his subsequent resignation from the institution over citation of American linguist Noam Chomsky’s criticism of the Narendra Modi government in a doctoral research proposal.
Terming the ‘voluntary retirement’ of the sociologist, Sasanka Perera as a ‘deep blemish on the ethics and authenticity of knowledge production in a university,’ the alumni have written a letter to K.K. Aggarwal, the president of the university along with the President of Sri Lanka, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and other government officials of the countries…