Kolkata: A day after his misogynist and sexist post comparing a virgin girl to a sealed bottle sparked outrage, a Facebook post has again put Jadavpur University professor, Kanak Sarkar, in the dock.
According to the post shared by journalist Adrija Chatterjee, the professor once told a female student she is “what men would enjoy”.
The professor, who teaches international relations at the university, had asked a female student if she wants to be a model as her figure is model like and if she has a lot of male friends. “Because according to him, I’m what men would enjoy,” the woman alleged.
“My HOD, in front of a class of 52 students, in that moment, reduced me to nothing,” she added.
On the other hand, though Sarkar later remove the post, “Virgin Bride – Why Not?”, he continued to defend his statement citing the Supreme Court giving “freedom of expression in social media”.
In the post, he made an analogy between a sealed bottle or a sealed packet and a virgin woman and wrote: “Are you willing to buy a broken seal while purchasing a bottle of cold drink or a packet of biscuits? A girl is born sealed from birth until it is opened. A virgin girl means many things accompanied with values, culture, and sexual hygiene. To most boys virgin wife is like angel.”
Sarkar had earlier been accused of sexual harassment by some of his students and his name also appeared in one of the Facebook posts around 2017 when the #MeToo movement gathered momentum.
