A social media post by a senior professor of The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has sparked a major controversy. The post, which demands government intervention to survive in the current acute state of financial and other crises, also alluded to a meeting of deans in which the management supposedly declared it would abandon many of its new and innovative programmes, leaving hundreds of students and 50 per cent of its faculty in the lurch.

The premier social sciences institute city has been in the news for many negative reasons recently. But, the newest development, which is putting the institute's very existence in question, has raised eyebrows.