Debate professor who called RSS proto-fascist, don't silence him: Shashi Tharoor Writing on Twitter and Facebook, Tharoor said he had expressed concern about the dwindling space for dissent on campuses when discussing the National Education Policy. Share Via Email | A+A A- Shashi Tharoor seen addressing a new batch of medical students who graduated from St. John's Medical School in Bengaluru in this file photo. (Photo | Meghana Sastry, EPS) By Express News Service KASARGOD: Lawmakers from Kerala have condemned the Kasaragod-based Central University of Kerala's decision to suspend political science assistant professor Gilbert Sebastian, who criticised the Centre's vaccine policy and called the RSS-BJP a proto-fascist organisation during his class.