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Why Academic Lecture Is…?: JNU Vice-Chancellor On “Caste Of Gods” Remark

On Wednesday, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit asserted that she had spoken as an ''academic".New Delhi: After her 'no god is upper caste' remark stoked a controversy, JNU(Jawaharlal Nehru University) Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday clarified that she was just "paraphrasing" BR Ambedkar's views and questioned why an academic lecture was being politicised."I was asked to speak on BR Ambedkar's views on gender justice. I was paraphrasing BR Ambedkar. You can see his writings. Why should people get angry with me, they should get angry with BR Ambedkar. Why I am being pulled into it," she told PTI.Delivering the Dr B R Ambedkar lecture series, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Monday said "anthropologically" gods do not belong to the upper caste and that even Lord Shiva cou...