Watching the Steady Decline of Academic Freedom at IIM Ahmedabad
Sandeep Pandey | 2 February 2024 | The Wire
This is the seventh consecutive academic year when I would have gone as a visiting faculty member to the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad to teach an elective course on ‘Transformational Social Movements’ to the second year of Post Graduate Programme students. But the invitation has not come so far and it looks like it is the end of my teaching stint at IIM, at least so long as the Bharatiya Janata Party remains in power at the Centre. I had got an inkling of things to come even during my month-long last stay on campus during June-July, 2023. For the first time, guests, including a retired high court judge, were not allowed to enter the campus to meet me…