{"id":29937,"date":"2021-03-19T23:53:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/modi-critics-resignation-from-indian-university-post-sparks-outcry"},"modified":"2021-03-19T23:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:53:13","slug":"modi-critics-resignation-from-indian-university-post-prompts-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29937","title":{"rendered":"Modi critic&#8217;s resignation from Indian university post prompts outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pratap Bhanu Mehta has said his ties to Ashoka University \u2018may be considered a political liability\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One of India\u2019s foremost public intellectuals, known for his trenchant criticism of Narendra Modi\u2019s government, has resigned from his post at a prestigious university, fuelling a debate about academic freedoms and what Modi\u2019s critics say is a shrinking space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/16\/india-citizenship-bill-shock-at-crackdown-may-unite-modi-opponents\">for dissent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pratap Bhanu Mehta stepped down as a professor of political science at Ashoka University on Monday, writing in his letter of resignation that \u201cmy association with the university may be considered a political liability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/19\/modi-critics-resignation-from-indian-university-post-sparks-outcry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pratap Bhanu Mehta has said his ties to Ashoka University \u2018may be considered a political liability\u2019One of India\u2019s foremost public intellectuals, known for his trenchant criticism of Narendra Modi\u2019s government, has resigned from his post at a prestigiou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29938,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions\/29938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}