Leher Ashoka
@leher_ashoka
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We are a secular political party that stands for free speech, social justice, and inclusivity. Opinions are personal.
Joined April 2023
Many courses at Ashoka teaches students to critically think about the world, it's institutions and the status quo. Some students choose to apply their learning in practice, engaging in political activism.
“No matter how much Ashoka boasts about its left liberal values, but at the end of the day it is a capitalist institute…It cannot produce Bhagat Singhs or Umar Khalids.”. While I admire Bhagat Singh, as a parent do I want my son to go to the gallows at.
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Mr Bikchandani's scorn and dismissal of student activism is a huge disrespect to the rich culture of student politics India has seen. No university hoping to inculcate future leaders can do so by restricting political discourse to the classroom.
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He is right though that Ashoka isn't an ideological echo chamber. However, the very openness and spirit of inquiry that he speaks of is currently at threat due to him and the other founders being unable to protect academic freedom or provide answers for the same.
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Leher condemns the recent remarks made by our university and it's failure to stand by Professor #SabyasachiDas. #Ashokaforacademicfreedom #ashokauniversity
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In complete solidarity with the Economics Faculty!.
Open letter to the governing body of Ashoka University from the economics department
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We support the demands put forward by @ashokaunisg. The administration must urgently answer questions posed forward by students and faculty regarding academic freedom.
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After student protests and condemnation by the academic community, the uni founders released a statement reaffirming their commitment to academic freedom and agreeing to student demands for more transparency (most of which remain unfulfilled till date).
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The latest comments by Ashoka University are unfortunately part of a longer trend. The institute has had a past of buckling down to outside pressure, abandoning its faculty.
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Given the institute's recent position the founders' words ring hollow. If Ashoka is willing to so easily throw their faculty under the bus what hope do students have who join the university to pursue research in a liberal space?.
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In March 2021, Professor Pratab Bhanu Mehta resigned from the university citing that he'd been told by the administration that his criticism of the government were a "political liability".
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In 2016 a controversial petition was circulated among the Ashokan community on the Indian army's conduct in petition. 3 faculty members who signed the petition ended up resigning, allegedly under pressure from the administration.
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