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News India Live, Digital Desk: IIT Bombay Controversy: One of the most prestigious institutions in the country, IIT Bombay, is once again in controversy. This time the case is related to a poster, in which pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have been used. After this poster came out, there was a lot of uproar on social media, after which IIT Bombay himself had to come forward and clarify.
After all, what is in this entire poster controversy?
The entire controversy began with the poster of an academic workshop, the theme of which was ‘South Asian Capitalism’ i.e. ‘South Asian Capitalism’. This workshop was organizing the United States of California, Berkeley, IIT Bombay and University of Massachusetts Amharst.
The poster made for this workshop was based on a 1911 anti-capitalist cartoon “Pyramid of the capitalist system”. In this poster, a pyramid was created in the poster, in which farmers and laborers were shown at the bottom, for whom it was written, “we work for all” and “We all fill stomachs”.
The dispute took place over the upper parts of the pyramid. In one part, it was written with the picture of the army, “We shoot at you” (we shoot at you). In the right side, it was written by putting a picture of PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and CM Yogi Adityanath, “We fool you” (We fool you). In this poster, a saffronian monk was also shown, while there was no picture of the religious leader of any other religion, which people also objected to.
Anger erupted on social media
As soon as this poster came on social media, people got angry. Many people expressed displeasure over how the Prime Minister and Home Minister of the country can be insulted in this way. Users questioned the institute like IIT Bombay to join this event and said that insults of the leaders of the country in the institute of taxpayers with taxpayers could not be tolerated by the people, people called it a unilateral propaganda in the name of academic freedom.
What did IIT Bombay say when the controversy increased?
After all -round criticism, IIT Bombay issued an official statement and separated himself from this whole matter. The institute said that they were “fully unknown” about this poster and seeing its content “deep shock and sorrow”.
In his statement, IIT made it clear that he has nothing to do with this event. He has instructed the organizers to immediately remove this poster from all social media platforms and remove the name of IIT Bombay from it. According to the institute, one of his projects belongs to ‘New Political Economic Initiative’, but he did not know any such flyer.
This incident has once again waged a big debate in academic institutions about freedom of expression and its boundaries.
