New Delhi: There was a time when academics would abandon teaching posts at Ivy League universities, leading DU colleges and submerge themselves in intellectual freedom and dogged rigour at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. They’d come to Rajpur Road in New Delhi and turn thinking into a full-time profession .

But over the last few months, the research institute, an awning under which once sat India’s best and brightest minds, has been in a state of soundless turmoil. At one level, it’s business as usual—there are scholars in the library, professors in their offices, and seminars that continue to be held . Work is ongoing. But from being India’s most influential research institute, k nown for larger-than-life thinkers like Rajni Kothari, Ashis Nandy, and Dhirubhai

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