'India Of Future Will Be Without Hinduism': IIT Delhi Professor Makes Controversial Comments

Days after an IIT Mandi professor hit the headlines after blaming eating meat as the cause for cloudbursts and landslides, a professor from IIT Delhi has landed in trouble for making anti-Hindu comments, Times Now reported.

A purported video of Divya Dwivedi, an associate professor in the department of humanities and social sciences, is doing rounds on social media sites where she is heard claiming "the India of the future would be without Hinduism" during a discussion on 'India's Moment: What Stakes at Delhi G20 Summit?' on France 24.

"There are two Indias - there is an India of the past, of the racialised caste order which oppresses the majority population... Then there is an India of the future, an egalitarian India without caste oppression, and without Hinduism. That is the India which is not yet represented but is waiting, longing to show its visage to the world," she said.

On reminding India's economic growth with an example of a rickshaw-puller getting benefited from technological advancements, Dwivedi responded saying such anecdotes were "media-tised".

"India has been shaped over 300 years by the racialised order of caste where 10% of the upper caste minority occupy 90% of powerful positions. That continues even today," she added.

Her comments are met with criticism on social media.

Last week, IIT Mandi director Laxmidhar Behera asked students to take a pledge not to eat meat, claiming that landslides and cloudbursts are happening in Himachal Pradesh because of cruelty to animals.

"Himachal Pradesh will have a significant downfall... if we do not stop butchering animals. You are butchering animals there... the innocent animals. It has a symbiotic relationship with the degradation of the environment as well... which you cannot see right now but is there," Behra said while addressing the students, a video of which is doing the rounds on social media.

"It is having landslides, cloudbursts and many other things again and again, these are all effects of cruelty to animals... people eat meat," he added.

"To become good human beings, what you have to do? No to meat eating," he claimed.