[Reader-list] ACADEMIA: UCLA-Sardar Patel Award Debate

[Naeem Mohaiemen]

"While the left-secular voices in the US were rightly sensitive to the
2006 California Textbook Controversy (CTC)  it is regrettable that in
1999 such an award was instituted at a premier centre such as UCLA
with no squeak of a protest. It is our silence on such issues that
makes possible larger rightwing incursions such as Saraswati Vandana
or CTC. The UCLA award bestows on a rightwing hawk like Sardar Patel
respect and legitimacy in academic circles, especially because it is
‘independently’ decided and because it boasts of ’secular’ recipients,
such as Srirupa Roy in 2000 who is now faculty at University of
Massachusetts, Amherst."


UCLA-Sardar Patel award
http://navayana.org/?p=644