St. Xaviers Kolkata’s professor quits

The woman, who requested anonymity, told The Indian Express that on October 7, a “kangaroo court” was held in front of Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Felix Raj and Registrar Asish Mitra. During this time, the woman claimed, she was “intimidated, bullied and taunted with sexually coloured remarks” and “objectionable insinuations” without cause or justification. A FORMER lecturer at St. Xavier’s University in Kolkata has made the decision to sue the school’s administration in the Calcutta High Court, months after she was “forced” to retire when a parent complained about her “objectionable” Instagram photos. The woman said that by the end of the next week, a writ petition against the university administration will be submitted to the relevant court.The scholar said that the way she was forced to retire amounted to “sexual harassment.” She has a degree from two European colleges. “You have not offered any explanation about how the photographs — which were posted months before I joined the institution and which were shared with a select, tightly-controlled audience for only 24 hours — were accessed, nor have you given any assurance that the photographs will be destroyed,” she wrote in her resignation letter to the vice chancellor. Instead, my photos and my body have been objectified and shamed using arbitrary and archaic standards of “morality.”