Published : Jul 07, 2023 17:34 IST - 2 MINS READ Eighty-eight academics have expressed solidarity with Professor Tejaswini Desai after she was placed on leave pending an inquiry by the Kolhapur Institute of Technology for countering communal statements in her classroom. The India Academic Freedom Network, a network of university teachers and students, stated in a press release on …
Published : Jul 04, 2023 12:59 IST - 7 MINS READ What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. Unknown to Professor Desai, some students were recording the classroom discussion. As Professor Desai has stated, she had to make her students reflect on their ideas, to critically examine themselves, and to question …