A leading Indian-origin academic has gone strike against tutoring students from King's College London after its staff members allegedly refused to address her as "Doctor".
Priyamvada Gopal, a Cambridge University fellow specialising in post-colonial literature, described the incident as part of "consistently racist aggression and profiling" from porters at King's College.
She declared on Twitter, after the incident on Monday, how she told one of the porters: "Please address me as Dr Gopal", to which he responded: "I don't care who you are."
She added: "Enough is enough of the consistently racist profiling and aggression by porters", adding that "hundreds of stories abound over the years...If you can't be polite to me at the gate, I can't do any work for you."
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