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<\/div>\nSome students claimed that guest speaker Sudhanva Deshpande was a “radical leftist” (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A protest was held on Saturday outside the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay seeking the arrest of a professor and a guest speaker for allegedly glorifying terrorism while talking about the Palestinian freedom struggle against Israel.<\/p>\n
According to the protesters, Professor Sharmistha Saha of the Humanities and Social Sciences department of the prestigious institution and guest speaker Sudhanva Deshpande, during a talk under academic course ‘HS 835 Performance Theory & Praxis’ on November 6, had allegedly spoken highly of “terrorists” and armed rebellion.<\/p>\n
Protesters under the aegis of the Vivek Vichar Manch claimed Sudhanva Deshpande had glorified Palestinian terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, who is allegedly part of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which has been designated a terror organisation by several countries and had even admitted to meeting him in 2015.<\/p>\n
They sought a probe into the phone calls and emails of Sharmistha Saha and Sudhanva Deshpande to find out the motive behind the November 6 talk, adding that the professor should be removed from IIT Bombay.<\/p>\n
A student told news agency PTI the talk was a blatant move to indoctrinate those studying at IIT Bombay through hateful and false narratives.<\/p>\n
In the letter submitted to police on November 7, some students claimed Sharmistha Saha had used her position inappropriately to invite speakers like Sudhanva Deshpande, who they claimed was a “radical Leftist”, for a virtual talk.<\/p>\n
Such events have troubling consequences for the academic integrity and safety of IIT Bombay since they promote ideologies linked to terrorism, the letter submitted to the police claimed.<\/p>\n
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