Editor of magazine Economic and Political weekly (EPW) had to resign because Board of Trustees called it an act of grave impropriety when the editor replied to a letter by Gautam Adani's lawyer. Interestingly the board of trustees did not question content of investigative article which revealed that Gautam Adani's firm had not paid custom duty but was claiming refund for it amounting to a 500 crore Rupee corruption and if any case is filed against EPW then Truth is its own defence can be used to successfully defend it.
Further the board tried to pressurise the editor saying He shouldn't leave the board room till the article is taken down from site without citing reason for taking down an article whose content nobody in board raised objection against.
So it's interesting What priorities the owners of EPW have. :)
Board of Trustees of Sameeksha trust are
Chairman : prof. Deepak Naiya
Managing Trustee: Mr. D N Ghosh
- Prof Romila Thapar
- Prof. Rajeev Bhargav
- Prof. Deepankar Gupta
- Prof. Shyam Menon
- Prof. Deepak Parekh (not present)
- Prof. Andre (not present)
https://youtu.be/k_fHBvngbr0
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