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  • Ashoka College’s political information centre board dissolves itself after founder ‘pressured to go away’

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    NEW DELHI: The medical board of Trivedi Centre for Political Knowledge at Ashoka College has introduced that it’s dissolving itself alleging that its founder and director Gilles Verniers used to be “pressured to go away”.

    The college, on the other hand, mentioned Verniers’s departure is because of him now not assembly the stringent standards on continuation of provider.

    The contributors of the medical board integrated former CEC SY Quraishi; Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King’s School London Christophe Jaffrelot; Professor of Political Science, College of Oslo, Francesca Jensenius; Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, Milan Vaishnav; Mukulika Banerjee (London Faculty of Economics and Political Science); Susan Ostermann (College of Notre Dame) and Tariq Thachil ( College of Pennsylvania).

    After having left Ashoka, the place he used to be an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Verniers is now Karl Loewenstein Visiting Fellow at Amherst School in Massachusetts.

    In an open letter, the medical board mentioned, “TCPD’s colourful and essential time table, beneath the management of founding Director Professor Gilles Verniers, is what attracted each and every people to serve on its Medical Board, and give a contribution to its highbrow venture.

    We now write to state our feel sorry about that the Centre’s founder and director used to be pressured to go away, and that the college didn’t tell the Centre’s medical board about choices that impact now not handiest the management of the Centre but in addition its long term as an establishment”.

    “Given this observe document of excellence, we have been shocked and disenchanted that we, because the Medical Board, weren’t consulted ahead of really extensive adjustments have been made governing how the Centre is administered and located inside of its house establishment, in breach of educational norms.

    “Beneath such instances, we, signatories of this letter, are dissolving TCPD’s Medical board.

    We decide to supporting Gilles Verniers’ and his companions’ efforts to care for the long run and the integrity of the information and of the paintings related to it,” the letter mentioned.

    For its phase, the college mentioned Verniers’ departure is because of him now not clearing the college’s stringent tenure procedure, which in his case came about virtually a yr in the past.

    “College who don’t qualify for tenure go out the college inside of 3 semesters.

    Professor Verniers has now not been educating at Ashoka for the final three hundred and sixty five days, and has now selected to go away the college.

    The college appreciates Prof Verniers’ many contributions as a trainer and against construction a powerful reference supply of political information for researchers and scholars,” the college mentioned in a commentary.

    The college additionally mentioned some its centres and places of work are deliberate to be built-in with the newly established Centre for Knowledge Sciences and Analytics (CDSA) so to strengthen its data-driven features and fostering a readily obtainable number of information units.

    “The Trivedi Centre for Political Knowledge (TCPD) is amongst them, and TCPD’s proposed integration with the brand new Centre has been communicated to the TCPD Medical Board not too long ago,” it mentioned.

    In step with the board, for years, analysis on Indian elections and democracy used to be restricted through the absence of publicly to be had information.

    “Students needed to look forward to months after an election to entry Election Fee of India (ECI) statistical reviews, which got here in all forms of codecs, none of them readily usable.

    The Trivedi Centre for Political Knowledge (TCPD) at Ashoka College modified this case through offering high quality open-access information in actual time and through accomplishing leading edge research of India’s elections,” the letter learn.

    The letter comes weeks after an argument on the college following resignation of Assistant Professor Sabyasachi Das after an argument over his analysis paper which argued that the BJP received a disproportionate percentage of intently contested parliamentary seats in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, particularly in states the place it used to be the ruling birthday celebration on the time.

    ALSO READ | Ashoka school, scholars call for panel on educational freedom, again ‘sacked’ professor

    NEW DELHI: The medical board of Trivedi Centre for Political Knowledge at Ashoka College has introduced that it’s dissolving itself alleging that its founder and director Gilles Verniers used to be “pressured to go away”.

    The college, on the other hand, mentioned Verniers’s departure is because of him now not assembly the stringent standards on continuation of provider.

    The contributors of the medical board integrated former CEC SY Quraishi; Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King’s School London Christophe Jaffrelot; Professor of Political Science, College of Oslo, Francesca Jensenius; Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, Milan Vaishnav; Mukulika Banerjee (London Faculty of Economics and Political Science); Susan Ostermann (College of Notre Dame) and Tariq Thachil ( College of Pennsylvania).googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    After having left Ashoka, the place he used to be an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Verniers is now Karl Loewenstein Visiting Fellow at Amherst School in Massachusetts.

    In an open letter, the medical board mentioned, “TCPD’s colourful and essential time table, beneath the management of founding Director Professor Gilles Verniers, is what attracted each and every people to serve on its Medical Board, and give a contribution to its highbrow venture.

    We now write to state our feel sorry about that the Centre’s founder and director used to be pressured to go away, and that the college didn’t tell the Centre’s medical board about choices that impact now not handiest the management of the Centre but in addition its long term as an establishment”.

    “Given this observe document of excellence, we have been shocked and disenchanted that we, because the Medical Board, weren’t consulted ahead of really extensive adjustments have been made governing how the Centre is administered and located inside of its house establishment, in breach of educational norms.

    “Beneath such instances, we, signatories of this letter, are dissolving TCPD’s Medical board.

    We decide to supporting Gilles Verniers’ and his companions’ efforts to care for the long run and the integrity of the information and of the paintings related to it,” the letter mentioned.

    For its phase, the college mentioned Verniers’ departure is because of him now not clearing the college’s stringent tenure procedure, which in his case came about virtually a yr in the past.

    “College who don’t qualify for tenure go out the college inside of 3 semesters.

    Professor Verniers has now not been educating at Ashoka for the final three hundred and sixty five days, and has now selected to go away the college.

    The college appreciates Prof Verniers’ many contributions as a trainer and against construction a powerful reference supply of political information for researchers and scholars,” the college mentioned in a commentary.

    The college additionally mentioned some its centres and places of work are deliberate to be built-in with the newly established Centre for Knowledge Sciences and Analytics (CDSA) so to strengthen its data-driven features and fostering a readily obtainable number of information units.

    “The Trivedi Centre for Political Knowledge (TCPD) is amongst them, and TCPD’s proposed integration with the brand new Centre has been communicated to the TCPD Medical Board not too long ago,” it mentioned.

    In step with the board, for years, analysis on Indian elections and democracy used to be restricted through the absence of publicly to be had information.

    “Students needed to look forward to months after an election to entry Election Fee of India (ECI) statistical reviews, which got here in all forms of codecs, none of them readily usable.

    The Trivedi Centre for Political Knowledge (TCPD) at Ashoka College modified this case through offering high quality open-access information in actual time and through accomplishing leading edge research of India’s elections,” the letter learn.

    The letter comes weeks after an argument on the college following resignation of Assistant Professor Sabyasachi Das after an argument over his analysis paper which argued that the BJP received a disproportionate percentage of intently contested parliamentary seats in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, particularly in states the place it used to be the ruling birthday celebration on the time.

    ALSO READ | Ashoka school, scholars call for panel on educational freedom, again ‘sacked’ professor

  • Ashoka school, scholars call for panel on instructional freedom, again ‘sacked’ professor

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    NEW DELHI: Extra voices have pop out in make stronger of Ashoka College professor Sabyasachi Das, who resigned after his paper highlighting conceivable manipulation within the 2019 normal elections confronted backlash. 

    Many provide and previous school participants and scholars have demanded the unconditional reinstatement of Prof Das, who taught economics, and sought to arrange a panel on instructional freedom.

    Previous, every other economics professor Pulapre Balakrishnan resigned, protesting towards Das’ ouster. Political science, sociology, and anthropology departments additionally confirmed team spirit with Das following English and Inventive Writing that have already supported the call for. This was once following the Economics Division’s open letter of make stronger for Das and his ‘unconditional’ reinstatement.

    As many as 87 school participants, together with from historical past, arithmetic, and physics departments, have written to Vice Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury mentioning that loose concept inside of universities in India is in disaster and demanded that every one selections on issues associated with instructional freedom must be placed on hang until the promised Committee for Educational Freedom is in position.

    Within the night time, The Ashoka College Scholar Executive (AUSG) posted on X (previously Twitter), “The coed frame should learn of the introduction and functioning of the Educational Freedom Committee. There should be NO position of governing frame in comparing school analysis. We predict the scholar frame to be stored up-to-date with main points of the School assembly.”

    Ashoka arrange on a sprawling 25-acre campus in Haryana’s Sonepat, has over 160 school participants, 19 departments, and over 2,800 scholars.

    The letter signed by means of 87 school participants was once on Thursday reposted on X by means of Amit Chaudhuri, writer and professor of ingenious writing at Ashoka. 

    “Loose concept inside of universities in India is in disaster nowadays, in large part on account of the near-absolute intolerance of critique. What’s critique? This can be a professional confrontation and contains the elevating of questions which can be inextricable, at any given level, from the material of a loose and wholesome society. It’s to be prominent, firmly, from defamation or incitement to hatred or all classes of expression that won’t rise up in a courtroom of legislation or which don’t abide by means of the Charter,” the letter, written on August 13, stated. The letter was once drafted and circulated ahead of the resignation of Das and Balakrishnan. 

    “To stifle critique is to poison the lifeblood of pedagogy. In consequence, it’s to break no matter long run our scholars may have as critical thinkers. Contemporary occasions round a paper revealed by means of Professor Sabyasachi Das are a reminder that the disaster is an ongoing and deep one, with implications for each instructional operating at Ashoka College and, for that subject, in India,” the joint letter signed by means of just about 100 school participants stated.

    The joint letter famous that it’s not a disaster that may move away by means of wishing that papers like Professor Das’s might not be written one day as a result of that’s not a practical chance in a operating establishment.

    “Apologies and resignations is not going to resolve it. It needs to be addressed with instructional freedom constituting the core of our place concerning the disaster.  Ashoka College drafted and followed a report for tutorial freedom in 2021. It’s been bewildering to witness occasions spread within the ultimate two weeks which can be without delay associated with instructional freedom in some way that makes no connection with this report and behaves, to all functions, as though it does now not exist,” the letter stated and demanded the quick formation of the Committee for Educational Freedom.

    Ashoka is mired in controversy after the school distanced itself from Das’s paper ‘Democratic Backsliding within the Global’s Greatest Democracy.’ Das resigned weeks after the analysis created a furore previous this month for suggesting that the BJP received “disproportionately” in carefully contested seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, particularly in states the place it was once in energy.

    The letter of make stronger from the economics division got here on Wednesday, an afternoon after the school vice-chancellor in a observation, showed Prof Das’s resignation.

    NEW DELHI: Extra voices have pop out in make stronger of Ashoka College professor Sabyasachi Das, who resigned after his paper highlighting conceivable manipulation within the 2019 normal elections confronted backlash. 

    Many provide and previous school participants and scholars have demanded the unconditional reinstatement of Prof Das, who taught economics, and sought to arrange a panel on instructional freedom.

    Previous, every other economics professor Pulapre Balakrishnan resigned, protesting towards Das’ ouster. Political science, sociology, and anthropology departments additionally confirmed team spirit with Das following English and Inventive Writing that have already supported the call for. This was once following the Economics Division’s open letter of make stronger for Das and his ‘unconditional’ reinstatement.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    As many as 87 school participants, together with from historical past, arithmetic, and physics departments, have written to Vice Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury mentioning that loose concept inside of universities in India is in disaster and demanded that every one selections on issues associated with instructional freedom must be placed on hang until the promised Committee for Educational Freedom is in position.

    Within the night time, The Ashoka College Scholar Executive (AUSG) posted on X (previously Twitter), “The coed frame should learn of the introduction and functioning of the Educational Freedom Committee. There should be NO position of governing frame in comparing school analysis. We predict the scholar frame to be stored up-to-date with main points of the School assembly.”

    Ashoka arrange on a sprawling 25-acre campus in Haryana’s Sonepat, has over 160 school participants, 19 departments, and over 2,800 scholars.

    The letter signed by means of 87 school participants was once on Thursday reposted on X by means of Amit Chaudhuri, writer and professor of ingenious writing at Ashoka. 

    “Loose concept inside of universities in India is in disaster nowadays, in large part on account of the near-absolute intolerance of critique. What’s critique? This can be a professional confrontation and contains the elevating of questions which can be inextricable, at any given level, from the material of a loose and wholesome society. It’s to be prominent, firmly, from defamation or incitement to hatred or all classes of expression that won’t rise up in a courtroom of legislation or which don’t abide by means of the Charter,” the letter, written on August 13, stated. The letter was once drafted and circulated ahead of the resignation of Das and Balakrishnan. 

    “To stifle critique is to poison the lifeblood of pedagogy. In consequence, it’s to break no matter long run our scholars may have as critical thinkers. Contemporary occasions round a paper revealed by means of Professor Sabyasachi Das are a reminder that the disaster is an ongoing and deep one, with implications for each instructional operating at Ashoka College and, for that subject, in India,” the joint letter signed by means of just about 100 school participants stated.

    The joint letter famous that it’s not a disaster that may move away by means of wishing that papers like Professor Das’s might not be written one day as a result of that’s not a practical chance in a operating establishment.

    “Apologies and resignations is not going to resolve it. It needs to be addressed with instructional freedom constituting the core of our place concerning the disaster.  Ashoka College drafted and followed a report for tutorial freedom in 2021. It’s been bewildering to witness occasions spread within the ultimate two weeks which can be without delay associated with instructional freedom in some way that makes no connection with this report and behaves, to all functions, as though it does now not exist,” the letter stated and demanded the quick formation of the Committee for Educational Freedom.

    Ashoka is mired in controversy after the school distanced itself from Das’s paper ‘Democratic Backsliding within the Global’s Greatest Democracy.’ Das resigned weeks after the analysis created a furore previous this month for suggesting that the BJP received “disproportionately” in carefully contested seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, particularly in states the place it was once in energy.

    The letter of make stronger from the economics division got here on Wednesday, an afternoon after the school vice-chancellor in a observation, showed Prof Das’s resignation.

  • Astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury appointed vice chancellor of Ashoka College

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Eminent astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury has been appointed as vice chancellor of Ashoka College, officers mentioned on Thursday.

    Raychaudhury, who’s recently director of the Inter-College Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), will take over from Professor Malabika Sarkar who has been serving because the VC since August 2019.

    “Professor Raychaudhury’s appointment follows an in depth world seek performed through a Seek Committee consisting of the chancellor, deans, school contributors, founders and trustees of Ashoka College. His date of becoming a member of can be introduced in a while,” the school mentioned in a remark.

    Raychaudhury holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Churchill Faculty, College of Cambridge and undergraduate levels in Physics from Trinity Faculty at College of Oxford and Presidency Faculty at College of Calcutta.

    He was once previous the Head of Division of Physics and Dean of Sciences at Presidency College.

    He additionally held more than a few positions on the College of Birmingham, UK; the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Lowell Area at Harvard College; and the Institute of Astronomy on the College of Cambridge.

    Raychaudhary is one in all India’s main observational astronomers, and has made seminal discoveries the use of observations at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies.

    He pioneered the learn about of galaxy superclusters because the universe’s biggest constructions, and has labored on unique stars corresponding to black holes in close by galaxies.

    “He has evolved cutting edge machine-learning algorithms for mining massive astronomical datasets, and just lately co-chaired the committee to bring together the imaginative and prescient file for the following decade of astronomy analysis for the Executive of India,” the remark added.

    NEW DELHI: Eminent astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury has been appointed as vice chancellor of Ashoka College, officers mentioned on Thursday.

    Raychaudhury, who’s recently director of the Inter-College Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), will take over from Professor Malabika Sarkar who has been serving because the VC since August 2019.

    “Professor Raychaudhury’s appointment follows an in depth world seek performed through a Seek Committee consisting of the chancellor, deans, school contributors, founders and trustees of Ashoka College. His date of becoming a member of can be introduced in a while,” the school mentioned in a remark.

    Raychaudhury holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Churchill Faculty, College of Cambridge and undergraduate levels in Physics from Trinity Faculty at College of Oxford and Presidency Faculty at College of Calcutta.

    He was once previous the Head of Division of Physics and Dean of Sciences at Presidency College.

    He additionally held more than a few positions on the College of Birmingham, UK; the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Lowell Area at Harvard College; and the Institute of Astronomy on the College of Cambridge.

    Raychaudhary is one in all India’s main observational astronomers, and has made seminal discoveries the use of observations at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies.

    He pioneered the learn about of galaxy superclusters because the universe’s biggest constructions, and has labored on unique stars corresponding to black holes in close by galaxies.

    “He has evolved cutting edge machine-learning algorithms for mining massive astronomical datasets, and just lately co-chaired the committee to bring together the imaginative and prescient file for the following decade of astronomy analysis for the Executive of India,” the remark added.