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IIT Bombay sponsors event claiming PM Modi, Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath are ‘fooling people’; institute denies role and blocks columnist

IIT Bombay, an elite institute, sparked outrage for a workshop poster mocking PM Modi, Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath as “fooling people,” later denying knowledge while blocking columnist Harshil Mehta who exposed its anti-government agenda

The workshop is hosted by IIT Bombay’s New Political Economic Initiative, led by Anush Kapadia, which received $4 million (₹35 crore) from the Ford Foundation.

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