By: Sarwar Alam
A leading academic has gone on strike against tutoring students from King’s College London after its staff members allegedly refused to address her as “Doctor”. Priyamvada Gopal, a Cambridge University fellow specialising in post-colonial literature, described the incident as part of “consistently racist aggression and profiling” from porters at King’s College. She declared on Twitter, after the incident on Monday (19), how she told one of the porters: “Please address me as Dr Gopal”, to which he responded: “I don’t care who you are.” The 50-year-old academic said it was not just a case of her arrogantly insisting on her…
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