If Ashoka founders think it was a company because they put so much money in it, let us now talk business. Many in the leading US universities were thinking of developing partnerships with Ashoka and a lead founder came to me for a partnership with Brown. Not possible anymore.
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About the controversy following Pratap Bhanu Mehta's resignation from Ashoka University. Ex-Harvard fellow and Brown University professor, Ashutosh Varshney Mar 19, 2021 also in ‘Spineless’: Academics Slam Ashoka University Over Exits The Quint. quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0. chapter 19