Free speech suffered grievous blow: Raghuram Rajan slams Ashoka University on exits of Mehta, Subramanian

Former RBI governor and noted economist Raghuram Rajan has criticised the Ashoka University over the recent exits of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian and said “free speech suffered a grievous blow in India”.

Former RBI governor and noted economist Raghuram Rajan has criticised the Ashoka University over the recent exits of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian and said “free speech suffered a grievous blow in India”. In a lengthy post on LinkedIn, Raghuram Rajan has slammed the back-to-back resignations of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian from the Ashoka University, calling them “a sad development for India”. “Ashoka’s founders should have realised that their mission was indeed not to take political sides but to continue to protect the right of people like Pratap Bhanu Mehta to speak, for in doing so, they were enabling Ashoka to make its greatest contribution to India’s wellbeing identifying what is wrong and encouraging us all to remedy it,” said Raghuram Rajan.