Delhi University assistant professor Devosmita Paul was found murdered at her Vasundhara Enclave flat in east Delhi. Author Advaita Kala remembered her as “dynamic, energetic and brimming with ideas” as police launched a murder investigation.

New Delhi: The murder of Delhi University assistant professor Devosmita Paul has left the academic community shaken, with an author who recently met her remembering the English professor as “dynamic, energetic, and brimming with ideas.”

Paul, a 49-year-old assistant professor at Shivaji College under Delhi University, was found dead in her apartment in east Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave on Thursday afternoon. Police said she was living alone in the flat, and a murder case has been registered.

Author Advaita Kala, who had recently met Paul at a felicitation event at Shivaji College, expressed grief over her death, remembering her as a “dynamic, energetic” person, brimming with ideas.”

“This is shocking! I just met Devosmita in February when I was invited to Shivaji College for a felicitation. She was an English professor who I had met a decade earlier when she was a graduate student. Dynamic, energetic and brimming with ideas,” the author posted on social media platform X.