A German professor has apologised after a series of emails widely circulated online revealed that she had denied an Indian student an internship spot giving the "rape problem in India" as a reason.
An email thread reproduced on Quora showed that Annette Beck Sickinger of Leipzig University denied the student an internship at the Institute of Biochemistry.
The email said: "Unfortunately, I don't accept any Indian male students for internships. We hear a lot about the rape problem in India which I cannot support. I have many female students in my group, so I think this is something I cannot support."
Amid a wave of anger, the German Ambassador to India, Michael Steiner, objected strongly to the exchange, after which the professor apologised.
The German envoy tweeted out his letter to the professor.
He called the "oversimplifying and discriminating generalisation" as an offense to millions of law-abiding, tolerant, open-minded and hard-working Indians.
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