INDIA, May 1, 2016 (Swarajya Magazine by Madhu Purnima Kishwar): Madhu Kishwar, the senior most professor at the Delhi based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), has sent a legal notice to the Director CSDS making serious allegations of gross and systematic discrimination against her.
She alleges that the proverbial last straw has been the arbitrary and vindictive action of denying her institutional affiliation for availing the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi National Professorship awarded to her by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) – the MHRD created organization that provides core funding to CSDS.
Kishwar is not only a renowned social scientist but also a leading public intellectual and pioneer of human rights, women’s rights activism in India through the organization and journal Manushi, she founded in 1978.
Kishwar’s declaration of intent to fight a legal battle and write a series of articles exposing the lawless manner in which CSDS has been functioning in the name of “academic freedom,” is available at “source” above.