Dr Tauseef Sir is not just a teacher; he is a mentor, a guide and a source of inspiration for me
Since 2016, Dr Tauseef Ahmad Parray (fondly known as Dr Tauseef sir among his students) has been working as an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in J&K s Higher Education Department. He joined our college, Government Degree College Sogam (Lolab) in
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I initially resisted responding to Professor Toyin Falola’s trending essay titled “IS THE DIASPORA NOW ABOUT RUBBISHING THOSE AT HOME?” which he wrote partlyin response to the guest column I invited Professor Moses Ochonu to write for three reasons.
One, the article was so atypically self-aggrandizing that I thought the Professor Falola I’ve known since 2004 couldn’t possibly be its author. Falola, like all greats, has a reputation for self-effacement and for disarmingly self-deprecating humility.
But the article wasn’t just gratuitously self-conceited (particularly for someone who is already sitting pretty at the mountaintop of enormous scholarly accomplishments and has no need to toot his own horn), it was also an invidiously below-the-belt symbolic violence against unnamed targets Falola perceives as less privileged than he is, which ironically vitiates his charge of superciliousness against diasporan critics of ASUU’s enablement of mediocrity in the Niger