TISS professor issued notice for ‘encouraging protesting students’
The academician described the institute’s action as ‘factually unfounded, unconstitutional, and illegal’.
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The Tata Institute of Social Sciences on October 8 issued a show-cause notice to Arjun Sengupta, an assistant professor at the School of Gender and Livelihoods at its Hyderabad campus, for allegedly encouraging protesting students, reported The Indian Express on Sunday.
This came after Sengupta spoke at a protest organised by student groups on October 4, expressing solidarity with Dalit student leader and PhD scholar Ramadas Prini Sivanandan who had been suspended in April for “activities not in interest of nation”.
Sengupta described the memorandum issued to him as “factually unfounded, unconstitutional, and illegal” and said he was denied an in-person hearing in the matter.
The notice received by him states: “A widely circulated Instagram video, wherein [Sengupta] can be seen with about 20 students, holding placards, and encouraging Progressive Students Forum (PSF) and Progressive Students Organisation (PSO) for their acts of raising voice against discontinuance letter issued in the month of June, 2024 to Tata Education Trust (TET) faculty and staff and in support of one suspended student namely Ramadas KS.”
According to The Wire, about 119 teaching and non-teaching staff whose positions are funded by the Tata Education Trust are unsure if their contracts will be renewed after December.
The memorandum to Sengupta said that the Progressive Students Forum was not a recognised body...
