
Jul 30, 2026
✦Hindustan Times
Open letter slams Priyanka Gandhi's 'gaumutra expert' remark for IIT Madras director: 'Among top tech brains of India'
Over 200 academicians signed an open letter slamming Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi for calling IIT Madras director V Kamakoti a "gaumutra expert." The letter said, "To dismiss a scholar through a label rather than engage with the substance of his views risks undermining the very scientific temper that our Constitution calls."