Thread by @gauravsabnis

Happy to have signed this letter.

It's very open and shut plagiarism.

In my opinion, @vikramsampath is a blatant plagiarist.

If any of my PhD students tried to pull the shit Vikram is trying to pull, I would recommend expulsion from the program.

For wilful dishonesty.

https://twitter.com/AudreyTruschke/status/1496666898129371139

If I may just point out, whenever "liberals" like Audrey, Anya, Rohit etc publish a letter, we signatories are happy and proud to put our names on the letters.

Whenever HAF sanghis pretend they have letters, it's always "names withheld".

Cos there are no sanghis in reality.

Any committee in any university outside India would look at the evidence presented by Truschke, Chakravarti, Chopra and see clear blatant plagiarism in the work.

By any reasonable modern definition of plagiarism.

@vikramsampath has been caught blatantly plagiarizing.

I have an open challenge for @vikramsampath

Is he willing to let this case be brought in front of neutral academic arbitration?

Is he actually willing to discuss the details of his blatant plagiarism or just pretend like he is an actual historian. Which he isn't.

If @vikramsampath were employed at a US university, he would have been fired last week.

But he's in India, so he's able to weaponize hindutva worshipping courts to harass academics using all his money.