Bhubaneswar, Feb. 25 -- An Assistant Professor of a city-based prominent private university had to lose her job for making a statement during a live television debate against India going to war with Pakistan over Pulwama terror attack.

Madhumita Ray, who was teaching Development Theory and Practice and Sociology at School of Rural Management of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) was asked to quit within 24 hours two days after she appeared on a Kanak News show on February 18, along with retired Indian Army Colonel Purna Chandra Patnaik, speaking strongly against a war with Pakistan.

Speaking to Odisha Sun Times, Madhumita, who still stands by her version, said: "On February 20, I was ordered by the management to resig...