

Numerous users commented on Gautier’s post, one of them called for the author Natarajan, professor Vaidik and the university administration to "immediately be charged with sedition for spreading hatred against a particular community." While another user asked for Natarajan to be arrested. The screenshots in Gautier's post were put up to show panels referring to 8th-century Indian theologian Adi Sankara as a "devious brahman scholar" who used "his twisted intellect to re-establish brahman domination in the 12th century." The 1873 book was a witty attack on the vedas being idle fantasies of a brahman's mind which enslaved the shudras and atishudras. Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan breathe fresh life into Phule’s rather graphic imagination, telling the story of Savitribai, Jyotirao’s partner in his struggles. Screenshots of the text in question are said to be from the graphic novel Gardener in the Wasteland, which is based on Indian reformer Jyotirao Govindrao Phule’s 1973 seminal book Gulamgiri. Unless you counter such hateful material your kids will suffer a very bad fate as history has taught us, " Gautier wrote in his post. Remaining silent is the same as being complicit in this hate speech being promoted by Aparna Vaidik.

It is funded by 70 odd entrepreneurs and industry leaders and Pratap Bhanu Mehta is the Vice- Chancellor of the university currently.

Ashoka University recognised by UGC and patronised by wealthy parents' kids, so it has lots of influence and credibility in minds of people. "Is it any surprise that they grow up deracinated and clueless about own history and with self-hatred.
