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Reports said that Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials visited Ashoka University days before the deadline given by several faculty members to offer to reinstate Sabyasachi Das, who resigned after publishing a paper critical of the BJP.

In a move seen as stifling the academic freedom in the country, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has begun probing a research paper titled ‘Democratic

What is noteworthy in the strange and still unfolding case of Dr Sabyasachi Das and Ashoka University is that the focus has shifted from the former’s controversial, but now somewhat discredited unpublished paper, to his erstwhile university

An excerpt from ‘India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy’, by Nalin Mehta.

If an autonomous university is hurt when the administration is hit, that is the sign of a deep malady

Mr Balakrishnan, a full professor in the economics department who joined the private university in 2015, on Saturday wrote to Ashoka University Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee and board of trustees chairperson Pramath Raj Sinha.

'I wish to place on record that in these eight years I have been here, the University has been true to its word'

India News: NEW DELHI: Pulapre Balakrishnan, the Ashoka University professor who quit following a row over the resignation of economist Sabyasachi Das from the in.

Balakrishnan, a full professor in the economics department who joined the private university in 2015, on Saturday wrote to Ashoka University Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee and board of trustees chairperson Pramath Raj Sinha explaining his reasons for his resignation.

In a statement condemning the actions of Ashoka University, the Department of Political Science has joined the voices protesting in favour of Sabyasachi Das.