Over 50 prominent historians and academics have issued a statement deploring the “false, defamatory and politically motivated campaign” against Kannur University Vice Chancellor Gopinath Ravindran by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan.
Taking umbrage at Mr. Khan branding Prof. Ravindran a criminal, the academics who pledged solidarity with the embattled Vice Chancellor, demanded an end to the alleged harassment.
The statement, whose signatories include Romila Thapar, K.N. Panikkar, Prabhu Prasad Mohapatra, Kesavan Veluthat, Prabhat Patnaik, Neeladri Bhattacharya, R.P. Bahuguna, Zoya Hasan and C.P. Chandrasekhar, credited Prof. Ravindran with leading Kannur University with distinction.
