In a counter to a section of current and retired faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) asking corporate leaders to “de-fund the spread of misinformation and hate speech”, a group of 23 retired IAS, IPS, IFS, and Defence Services of Karnataka have written to Devi Prasad Shetty, chairman of the board of governors of the IIMB, seeking action against the faculty members who have written the letter to the corporate leaders.
They appealed to Dr. Shetty “to ensure that no such incidents of dubious nature happen on the campus of IIMB again”.
“The very title of the letter that says ‘to defund hate speech’ reflects their bankrupt mindset and ideological bias,” said retired IAS, IPS, IFS, and Defence Services officers and condemned the use of words and phrases such as ‘increasing risk of violent conflicts’, ‘hatred towards minorities’, ‘genocide’, ‘annihilation of social fabric’, and ‘silence of authorities’ in the letter to the corporate leaders.
