While their right to ask for what they want to teach is part of their academic freedom but asking for removal of other books that they do not agree with is Anti-academic and destructive. Universities are meant for teaching and debating diversified ideas, concepts. Hundreds of thoughts must clash there. Universities are not theological institutes where only one religious ideas are taught.
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India: Statement by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd on the move to drop his books from the M.A. Political Science syllabus at Delhi university
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Bangladesh: Let Shahidul resume his journey
26 October 2018It is nothing if not misguided to believe or suggest Shahidul Alam’s motivations were in any way mala fide, as he waded into the student protests in August to provide his own eyewitness accounts, taking advantage for the first time of that remarkable tool that has emerged for all story-tellers: Social media.
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India: Media under Modi Regime - Remembering Balagopal 9th Memorial Lecture by Hartosh Singh Bal
25 October 2018Video recording of a public lecture by the noted India journalist Hartosh Singh Bal in early October 2018
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India: A Growing Fear Among Us - Text of Keynote by Shanta Gokhale address at 2018 Ooty Literary Festival
25 October 2018on 14 September 2018 at Ooty Literary Festival in Tamil Nadu Shanta Gohale was given the Ooty Literary Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. This is the full text of the keynote address delivered by her.
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Facts Don’t Back The Argument That Most Indian Muslims Wanted | Rupa Subramanya
25 October 2018Was there overwhelming support for Pakistan among the Muslims of undivided India?
