South Asian University Row: Professor Perera Slams Sri Lankan Envoy's 'Disgraceful' Actions
09 August 2024 | The Wire
The controversy over South Asian University’s notice to a doctoral scholar and the disciplinary action against his Sri Lankan supervisor has taken a new turn.
After the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India retracted her earlier concerns, claiming incomplete information, Sasanka Perera, the prominent Sri Lankan sociologist who resigned from the university, accused her actions of being “not only unfathomable but disgraceful”.
The South Asian University (SAU) is an international body, jointly managed and financed by eight SAARC member states. It is hosted by India and supervised by administered by Ministry of External Affairs, as per the provisions of the South Asian University Act 2008.
Last November, a doctorate scholar had submitted a proposal on Kashmir’s ethnography and politics, which was approved by the supervisor, Professor Sasanka Perera, before being sent to the Dean of Social Sciences…