A professor in India has since been forced to resign from a prominent university after a student's parent reported her "private , broke the silence for the first time. Swimsuit photo To university management.
A professor in the eastern city of Kolkata was accused of being "loosely humiliated" in a "reenactment of a modern-day witch trial" over photos she privately shared with certain groups. How many people on Instagram said they were
In an opinion piece in the Indian Express newspaper, the professor, who did not identify her, accused St. Xaviers Her College of Kolkata, in October. accused of coercing her to hand in her resignation.last year, in a refusal from her university.
Not only was she "ethically cracked down and harassed for more than an hour for images she shared privately with a select group of people, she was also forced to submit a letter of resignation." ', she wrote in the next article. Thursday.
The incident dominated Indian media headlines and sparked outrage on social media among the teaching community andwomen's rightsactivists.
The backlash also launched an online petition calling for "immediate disciplinary action against Felix Raj (Vice Chancellor of the University)."
By Friday this petition she had collected 24,273 signatures.
This is because academics have questioned how educational institutions can penalize employees for off-campus attire.
Clothing dominates Indian universities after several Muslim students were denied admission to schools in Karnataka for wearing head coverings.
Six teenagers were denied admission toschools. They were wearing hijabs, and a court ruledthat wearing hijabs inside classrooms violated the school's uniform policy. The order provoked outrage by acknowledging that complaints about sexual harassment did not prima facie prejudice against the accused because the female complainant was wearing a "sexually provocative" dress. 38} Raj of St Xavier's University denied that the university forced the teacher to resign, and the teacher apologized and admitted he made a "mistake" in "inviting the student to his Instagram account." reported the telegraph.
After returning from Europe with a Ph.D. and entering university, the professor said, "Before it turned into a strange nightmare, her professional career was [...]It was an idyllic educational journey. ”.
Recalling her alleged dismissal, she said she was summoned by the Vice Chancellor last October 7 on the pretext of a meeting that turned out to be a "modern reenactment of a witch trial." Stated.
"I was interrogated and then humiliated over private Instagram photos," she said.
"These photographs, a finely curated printout, are said to have been the basis for a complaint sent to the university by the father of a first-year male student."
She said the complaint lamented her "lack of validity and the ostensibly sexually inflammatory nature of my images." "It disrespected my right to bodily autonomy and reduced my persona to a mere sexual vessel into which voyeuristic slurs of my half-parent's morality were lavished," she said.
The witch hunt, said the "enthusiastic participation of five women", was even more insulting and traumatic, the professor said.
"I was told that if I did not voluntarily resign, I would be punished by filing criminal charges against me for posting 'offensive' photos," she added. rice field.
After the controversy, the professor sent a legal notice to the administration, but she reportedly seeks damages from the university of her Rs 990 million (£10.4 million). I received a counter-notice.
"Shame, fear, disgust — I felt all the emotions with painful intensity," she said.
The professor said that not only did she suffer mentally, but her health also "worn out."
She said the incident also affected her parents. Especially her father started having fainting attacks. His illness worsened, and then he developed severe heart failure, she said. I write them to illustrate the very real and irreparable human harm that arbitrary decisions leave in their wake," she said. "The infamous swimsuit photo" hijacked the case, but she said it was not a problem to wear swimsuits or traditional clothing. and says nothing about the worth of the person who wears it.Above all, I want to take back my body and my feminist agency so that what happened to me doesn't happen to anyone else.
