Caste Bias Cry in DU Snub to Professor: Highly Cited CERN Physicist Denied Promotion
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 25 June 2025 | The Telegraph
A Delhi University faculty member who was part of critical experiments at a physics laboratory in Geneva has been declared “not found suitable” to be promoted as professor, fueling allegations that he was being targeted for his Dalit identity.
Ashok Kumar, an associate professor in the department of physics and astrophysics, has worked as a scientist and technical coordinator in experiments conducted at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research…