Topic: Noam Chomsky

Some popular media outlets and international political figures came under fire Tuesday for falsely reporting the death of U.S. academic and social critic Noam Chomsky, who is fighting to recover in Brazil after suffering a massive stroke last year.

More than 261 academics, including renowned linguist Noam Chomsky, in a letter to the President of India, Draupadi Murmu, informed her about the service termination of Visva-Bharati University professor Sudipta Bhattacharya over “undesirable” actions.

The only credible evidence against jailed activist Umar Khalid that has been presented is that he was exercising his constitutional right to speak and to protest, a fundamental prerogative of citizenship in a free society, said world renowned intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky.

Islamophobia is taking its most lethal form in India, with almost 250 million Muslims in the country becoming a persecuted minority, said Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading public intellectuals and Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous public intellectuals and the 90-year-old Professor Emeritus from MIT has said that the Professor Babu's case is one egregious example of a clamp down on freedom of expression by the increasingly authoritarian Narendra Modi government.

Calling it an act of " incarcerating democratic voices" more than 200 scholars, activists and artists around the globe penned a joint statement expressing solidarity with arrested anti-CAA activists including former JNU student leader and United Against Hate activist Umar Khalid.