{"id":183849,"date":"2025-09-18T20:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=183849"},"modified":"2025-09-18T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:17:25","slug":"ex-diplomats-lecture-sparks-outrage-at-delhi-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/18\/ex-diplomats-lecture-sparks-outrage-at-delhi-college.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-diplomat\u2019s lecture sparks outrage at Delhi college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-183851\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/2025-09-18-20_15_54-Ex-diplomats-lecture-sparks-outrage-at-Delhi-college-Google-Search-\u2014-Mozilla-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/2025-09-18-20_15_54-Ex-diplomats-lecture-sparks-outrage-at-Delhi-college-Google-Search-\u2014-Mozilla-.jpg 570w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/2025-09-18-20_15_54-Ex-diplomats-lecture-sparks-outrage-at-Delhi-college-Google-Search-\u2014-Mozilla--390x202.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/>New Delhi: A lecture at Delhi University&#8217;s Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College for Women by retired diplomat Deepak Vohra has drawn flak from the students&#8217; union, which termed his alleged remarks &#8220;misogynistic&#8221; and &#8220;derogatory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the LSR students&#8217; union In an official statement said, &#8220;The address was marked by comments that were not only divisive but also misogynistic, derogatory&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Such statements have no place in an academic institution and their delivery on our campus was a direct violation of our values and intellectual standards,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the union objected to Vohra&#8217;s alleged remark about wishing to be reborn as a man after the principal suggested being reborn as a woman to study at LSR.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This revealed a mindset that reflects a deeply ingrained misogyny. We demand a public apology from him,&#8221; the union said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Vohra did not respond to a query about the allegations. The session, organised on September 11 by the B.A. Programme Department and titled &#8216;Unstoppable India 2047&#8217;, was billed as a discussion on India&#8217;s future in policy and diplomacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A lecture at Delhi University&#8217;s Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College for Women by retired diplomat Deepak Vohra has drawn flak from the students&#8217; union, which termed his alleged remarks &#8220;misogynistic&#8221; and &#8220;derogatory&#8221;. According to Kashmir Media Service, the LSR students&#8217; union In an official statement said, &#8220;The address was marked by comments that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/2025-09-18-20_15_54-Ex-diplomats-lecture-sparks-outrage-at-Delhi-college-Google-Search-\u2014-Mozilla-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183852,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183849\/revisions\/183852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}