Topic: Visva-Bharati University

Sacking of Visva-Bharati professor ‘brazenly illegal’: Noam Chomsky, other academics write to President

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Maktoob Staff - January 12, 2023

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.

Casteism remarks: Upper-caste professor files counter case against Dalit student

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Maktoob Staff - September 21, 2021

Somnath Sow, a Dalit student of Visva-Bharati University (VBU) in West Bengal has alleged that a professor from upper-caste Hindu community refused to interact with him and called him "impure."