US-INDIA: Harvard drops Indian party leader's courses

Harvard University has cancelled Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy's summer courses over his controversial article in a Mumbai newspaper advocating destruction of hundreds of Indian mosques and disenfranchisement of non-Hindus in India, reports The Economic Times.

After a heated debate, a meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences last week voted to remove two summer school courses, economics S-110 and economics S-1316, taught by Swamy, according to The Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper.

Swamy received significant criticism for his op-ed last summer in Daily News and Analysis calling for the destruction of mosques, the disenfranchisement of non-Hindus in India who do not acknowledge Hindu ancestry, and a ban on conversion from Hinduism, it said. Although Harvard chose to stand by Swamy in August in an effort to affirm its declared commitment to free speech, faculty members shot down his two courses, effectively removing him from Harvard's teaching roster, the campus paper said.
Full report on The Economic Times site