Letter Calls on Haryana Women's Commission to Retract Summons, Apologise to Political Scientist
17 May 2025 | The Wire
New Delhi: An open letter supporting political scientist Ali Khan Mahmudabad as well as demanding that the Haryana women’s commission retract its summons to him and apologise for ‘deliberately and maliciously slandering him’ has garnered over 1,200 signatures.
Floated by historian and Mahmudabad’s colleague at Ashoka University Aparna Vaidik and Delhi University Hindi professor Apoorvanand, the letter dated Friday (May 16) said it is “preposterous” that “even praising the army, albeit while criticising those who clamour for war, can now invite such targeted harassment and attempted censorship”….