New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has publicly criticised Mumbai University after being uninvited from a student event just hours before it was scheduled, calling the decision insulting and dishonest.

In a strongly worded article in the Indian Express titled "When a university speaks power to truth", Shah detailed how he was dropped from the Jashn-e-Urdu programme organised by the university's Urdu department on February 1, allegedly without explanation or apology.

According to Shah, he was informed late on the night of January 31 that his presence was no longer required. What followed, he wrote, was even more troubling, the audience was told that he had declined to attend.

"The university, after informing me that I n...