On February 24, controversial professor of Rutgers University Audrey  Truschke claimed that more than 75 ‘concerned scholars’ had signed an open letter expressing their support to her and other historians including Ananya Chakravarti and Rohan Chopra.

The letter claimed that there was hate campaign being driven against them by ‘right-wing social media networks’ and asked support from scholars. This comes in the light of the setback they received after the Delhi High Court passed an ad-interim order restraining Audrey Truschke, Ananya Chakravarti and Rohit Chopra from publishing defeamatory content alleging plagiarism against historian Vikram Sampath in relation to his works on Veer Savarkar.

The signatories of this letter purpotedly included alleged ‘historian’ Ramchandra Guha, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, rabid Islamic Fundamentalist Zakir Naik, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, etc.

However, many of those who Truschke claimed to be signatories have distanced themselves from the letter.

My attention has been drawn to this letter below. I had never seen it before, and contrary to what is claimed there, I have not signed it, neither as Ramachandra Guha nor as "Ram Guha". https://t.co/xJj1BIDx3C

— Ramachandra Guha (@Ram_Guha) February 27, 2022

https://twitter.com/Tathagat_Kumar_/status/1497912198777434112

It has come to my notice that I am listed as a signatory to this letter. I did not receive the contents of this particular letter and never signed it. I also have institutional affiliations that would have been part of my signature. https://t.co/QisJFjv8EV

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta (@pbmehta) February 27, 2022

Tathagat Kumar is a student at Delhi University whose name was also included in the list of ’75 concerned scholars’.

Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi earlier clarified that her colleague in the Rajya Sabha Sanjay Raut also did not sign any such letter by Truschke.

Misrepresenting a politician @rautsanjay61 & surreptitiously adding his signature without his knowledge alongwith a bunch of rabid Islamists & Pakistani organizations is "academic integrity" indeed. All the eminent signatories need to see what they've signed up for!@priyankac19 https://t.co/kk4Wr5vTiY

— Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS (@vikramsampath) February 27, 2022

Noted historian Vikram Sampath has been facing a volley of attacks from Truschke and her likes after he came out with his two-part magnum opus on freedom fighter Veer Savarkar.

The alleged ‘historians’ and leftist academicians have been accusing him of plagiarism regarding his 2017 essay and his two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar which has been proved false.

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Rutgers University professor Audrey Truschke who had accused historian Vikram Sampath of plagiarism for his works on Veer Savarkar on Twitter will now have to delete those tweets. 

The Delhi High Court on Thursday (24 February) gave direction to social networking platform Twitter to take down five tweets of Audrey Truschke against historian Vikram Sampath.

Audrey Truschke is an Aurengazb apologist and the order was passed by Delhi High Court headed by a single bench of Justice Amit Bansal on a plea filed by Sampath who is Rs 2 crore in damages from Truschke and two others, reports Bar and Bench.

In his plea, Sampath had also sought a permanent injunction on publication of the letter dated 11 February written by Truschke, Ananya Chakravarti, and Rohit Chopra to Britain’s Royal Historical Society (RHS) President Emma Griffin.

Lawyer Raghav Awasthi who is representing Vikram Sampath said that his client has faced a barrage of online attacks while the new tweets against Sampath also directly attack the authority of the court. 

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Rutgers University professor and Islamic genocide apologist Audrey Truschke, recently bullied a freshman Hindu student named Rama Sardar at the Indiana University (IU) to resign from her university’s newspaper.

Truschke, who is a known Hinduphobe who glorified and called Aurangzeb and other Mughal rulers as seculars publicly indulged in Hinduphobia.

Rama, who is majoring in media at Indiana University, last month wrote an article titled to counter  Truschke in which she says “Why did the IU Islamic Studies Program Tweet in Support of a Hinduphobic Professor?” after Indiana University’s Islamic Studies Program’s director tweeted in support of the Hinduphobic professor.

In a tweet thread that has been posted on a page named ‘Hindu on Campus’ that recently took on Oxford University professor Abhijit Sarkar who bullied Rashmi Sawant, aims to create a safe space for Hindu students. The article soon became viral on social media platforms.

“I decided to write an opinion article on this matter and interviewed a Hindu student at IU. I reached out to the director, Robert Crouch, for an interview as well but he did not answer any of my questions. The article was published on March 24. To my surprise, it became the most read article of that week and it also went viral on Twitter,” said Rama.

Our posts are usually kept anonymous. However, a brave young Hindu, Rama Sardar, shares her perspective on resigning from her school newspaper. pic.twitter.com/ZIqm5ln4ZZ

— Hindu On Campus (@hinduoncampus) April 30, 2021

After the article was published and widely received the Islamic Studies Program started complaining and raised objection about the editorial piece and claimed that few parts of the article drew an unfavorable light on the director Robert Crouch.

So after this objection was raised, Rama agreed to make the necessary edits, but much to her dismay and attack on freedom of speech, the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) management decided to un-publish the entire article citing a flimsy reason that the ‘edits would be too lengthy anyway’ and the article did not meet the journalistic ethics and standards.

The moment the article was taken down, selective free speech advocate Audrey Truschke sent out a tweet in which she said, “Indiana University’s student-run newspaper retracts two columns for inconsistencies with journalistic ethics and standards.” She further added, “Their leadership notes: We regret any harm inflicted as a result of their publication. I appreciate the integrity shown here.”

But to ensure her credentials as a free speech advocate, Truschke posted a follow-up tweet where she said, “Full disclosure I did not request that these article be retracted or altered in any way. I heard about this today, when it happened. “.

Many pointed out Truschke’s long history of going after Hindu students studying abroad like Rashmi Samanth, the ex-president of Oxford University Student Union who resigned after being bullied by the left and the Islamists for being a Hindu.

The Alliance of Progressive Hindus in a tweet said, Today, @/AudreyTruschke bullied a freshman Hindu student at Indiana University but was quick to delete her tweets. Imagine being this insecure that you need to harass a FRESHMAN?!

Today, @/AudreyTruschke bullied a freshman Hindu student at Indiana University but was quick to delete her tweets. Imagine being this insecure that you need to harass a FRESHMAN?!

See pinned tweet on @hinduoncampus for context. How disgusting. https://t.co/f2tein858U pic.twitter.com/X0CcBYRPUT

— Alliance of Progressive Hindus (@AllianceHindus) April 30, 2021

Disappointed at the harassment meted, Rama said, “My voice has been silenced because a powerful university program took issue with what I had to say, and my management took their side with no explanation,” whilst adding, “I never expected being censored, discriminated against for being Hindu, and speaking my mind. I never expected to be treated the way and the newspaper that I work for to just casually throw my hard work away.”

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