"Trustees must “provide a full, public, accounting of whatever policies or pressures brought about the circumstances that forced Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s resignation … My Respect for Ashoka University Has Been Seriously Tested … I gave the first of the Ashoka ‘Crossover’ Series lecture unveiling the university to the public later that year; I offered the commencement address at the 2018 Ashoka convocation; I donated to its library my own and my late wife’s entire collections of books in 2019. And I have known Professor Mehta for almost 30 years and have learned from him for 30 years.” ... If this is not done, and done soon, he said, “the stain on the university will be indelible, and the support of its most fervent admirers permanently lost.”"
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About the controversy following Pratap Bhanu Mehta 's resignation . Sheldon Pollock of Columbia University. Sheldon Pollock: 'My Respect for Ashoka University Has Been Seriously Tested' The Wire, 19/Mar/2021. quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0. chapter 19
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