Aligarh Muslim University Professor Refers To ‘Mythical Rape’ During Lecture, Suspended

Aligarh Muslim University Professor Refers To ‘Mythical Rape’ During Lecture, Suspended

I heard a weird piece of news this morning. The news pertains to a faculty member teaching at the Aligarh Muslim University who has been suspended for hurting religious sentiments of the students while taking a class. Dr Jitendra Kumar, who teaches forensic medicine at the AMU university, has been issued a show-cause notice after he gave references to rape from Hindu mythology during this lecture. He is said to have shown a slide show in his class about the different kinds of marriages that were prevalent in India, and talked about certain Hindu deities and saints in a not-so-honourable manner.

Aligarh Muslim University Professor Suspended

Allegedly, the professor in question gave references to a story of “Lord Bramha raping his daughter” and a few other deities appearing in different guises to commune with women, as is often mentioned in mythology, and spoke about them as rape. He apparently also spoke about the Nirbhaya rape case. As per reports, several students have taken to their respective social media accounts to criticise the lecture. This caused much uproar and the Aligarh Muslim University administration also condemned the reference material of the slides. The professor also has been 24 hours to respond to this enquiry raised against him.

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A two-member committee has also been set up by the administration to ensure this sort of incident does not occur in the future. It is reported that Dr Jitendra Kumar has issued an ‘unconditional’ apology and said that he has made a mistake. He also has assured in his apology that this will not occur again. The suspension letter issued by the public relations department of the university has also surfaced on Twitter.

 

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What I fail to understand here is what was the context of the study material that the professor had to bring Gods in between?  Especially when they are aware of how easily triggered the country’s sentiments are and how volatile the political climate is.

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