5 Editorial Board Members of Harvard’s Classical Library of India ‘Dismissed’
R Radhika | 6 March 2024 | The Indian Express
Five editorial board members of the Harvard University’s Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI) have alleged to have been “summarily dismissed” by Parimal Patil, the chair of the oversight board, without a cause or explanation. The allegations came in even as Patil has said the editorial members were “transitioned off” due to “administrative reasons.”
Whitney Cox of the University of Chicago, Maria Heim of the Amherst College, Rajeev Kinra of the Northwestern University, Francesca Orsini of SOAS, University of London, and Archana Venkatesan of the University of California, in a statement issued on March 2 said that they were dismissed from the role of editors at MCLI in the last week of January. Those dismissed were responsible for editing and supervising the translation and publication of 43 books under contract in different Indian vernaculars…