Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney (born 1957) is an Indian-born political scientist and academic. He is currently the Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Varshney previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan.

Quotes

• If Ashoka founders think it was a company because they put so much money in it, let us now talk business. Many in the leading US universities were thinking of developing partnerships with Ashoka and a lead founder came to me for a partnership with Brown. Not possible anymore.
  • About the controversy following Pratap Bhanu Mehta's resignation from Ashoka University. Ex-Harvard fellow and Brown University professor, Ashutosh Varshney [1] Mar 19, 2021 also in ‘Spineless’: Academics Slam Ashoka University Over Exits The Quint. quoted from Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0. chapter 19