A day after her remarks during a lecture in which she had said that anthropologically gods do not belong to the upper caste, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said it is to the credit of Hinduism that great dissenters from Gautam Buddha to BR Ambedkar are celebrated.
After her “no god is upper caste” remark stoked controversy, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday defended her comments as an academic exercise and said she was misquoted on her comments.
A day after JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit's remarks that anthropologically Gods do not belong to the upper caste, she said it is to the credit of Hinduism that great dissenters from Gautam Buddha to BR Ambedkar are celebrated.