A number of academics protested.

A number of academics protested.
As an affected party, the AMS should have given me at least one chance to state my side publicly.
Signatories to the petiton included top Indian academics
M. G. K. Menon, A. N. Mitra, Puspha Bhargava, Ashish Nandy, S. P. Shukla, Sumit Sarkar, Harish Trivedi, G. N. Devy etc.

As an affected party, the AMS should have given me at least one chance to state my side publicly.