The university’s comments come in the backdrop of the resignation of two of its faculty--political commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta and noted economist Arvind Subramanian.
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, in a Linkedin post, said that free speech has suffered a 'grievous blow' in India.
The developments came on a day when eminent economist Arvind Subramanian also resigned as a professor of the university.
Is it gullibility or complicity of our pro-establishment intellectuals to pass off the violent core of political culture represented by Narendra Modi as an aberration?
A foreign and strategic policy for India in the twenty first century
Education and Equality are central to India's future because they not only define the content of our power; they are also the instruments to achieve it.
Eminent Indians speak up in support of Sonal Shah: 'We are dismayed by attempts to draw Sonal Shah's name into needless controversy by questioning her ideological affiliations and to make utterly false accusations against her'
The meeting of China, Russia and India offers temptations of a multipolar order. Is a profound shift may underway in international politics? The larger context suggests more might be at stake.
Does globalization require an ethic of religious exchange? Should there be a set of norms, unstated conventions, restraints that govern religious exchange?
A perfidious piece of legislation, the Quota Bill, is about to arrive. The dark clouds it brings in its wake will dissipate only when this crisis becomes an occasion for genuine soul searching, for focusing attention on the meaning of citizenship and
In addition to the state investing heavily in increasing access to higher education, globalization also requires the state to respect the autonomy of institutions so that institutions have the flexibility to do what it takes to retain talent in a glo
'...by the fact that it prompted you to write ... But I do not believe that virtue is distributed by caste or class, which your letter implicitly suggests ... Perhaps I trust society too much, but perhaps you trust the state too much, and good histo
'Your government is sending a message about our institutions: in the final analysis, they are playthings for politicians to mess around with ... I cannot help but concluding that what your government is proposing poses grave dangers for India as a n
Time to brace up. The historic nuclear deal with the US could have an unpredictable and serious outcome. Is India now in the danger of being drawn into the confrontation between militant Islam and the West, a confrontation that is not of its making?
While Wall Street was being wooed, the Indian farmer was left without help. Or so the story goes. But the truth is that the plight of these farmers had little to do with a government bent on sending signals to investors.
If opposing globalization in the name of democracy is often disingenuous, bypassing democracy in the name of globalization is downright dangerous.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.