In Visva-Bharati, a major political flip-flop

Its disappearance was as unexpected as its appearance, leaving questions unanswered and the field open for people to make guesses — and also, perhaps, putting a question mark on the Bidyut Chakrabarty

Its disappearance was as unexpected as its appearance, leaving questions unanswered and the field open for people to make guesses — and also, perhaps, putting a question mark on the Bidyut Chakrabarty’s future as the Vice-Chancellor of the Santiniketan-based Visva-Bharati. On Wednesday morning, a notice was uploaded on the university website, inviting people to the next lecture in its lecture series, to be held virtually on the evening of May 18. The lecture was to be delivered by Professor Sanjay Kumar, Joint Advisor at Niti Aayog, and presided over by Professor Chakrabarty himself. The subject of the lecture: ‘Why BJP failed to win West Bengal Assembly Elections?’ Local news channels, which had gone silent on Santiniketan because the university itself had fallen silent during the recent times owing to the prolonged Assembly elections (and the results) and the fresh wave of COVID-19, included the news about the proposed lecture in their top stories.