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SC/ST Faculty in NIT Warangal Agitate against Biased Recruitment

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  Round Table India The following letter is a representation to the Union Minister of Human Resources Development on the 30-01-2016, from an observer who witnessed the situtation of the SC/ST Faculty at NIT, Warangal:  To The Honourable Minister,Ministry of Human Resources and Development, GOI, Respected Madam, This is to bring to your notice that the SC/ST …

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Homage to a Great Mind

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  Georgy Kuruvila Roy In an article written condemning the objective violence pertaining to the suicide of Rajani a Dalit engineering student in Kerala, Rekha Raj does not for one moment associate her suicide with victimization. For her, Rajani and students like her should be seen as those icons from the Dalit community who braved …

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Who killed Rohith Vemula?

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  Sujatha Surepally 26 years old Rohith Vemula, who wanted to reach the stars, become a science writer like Carl Sagan, is no more today. Perhaps he wanted to reach the stars, because his life had been oppressed, abused and separated his mind from his body. He may not have thought that he would make …

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Caste! You are the Monster!

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  Harish S. Wankhede “The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind.” ~ Rohith Vemula Rohith Vemula is murdered. The Hindu caste psyche naturalizes the degraded social inequalities with such insensitivity that even …

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Condemning the shrinking democratic spaces in educational institutions

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  From the National Law School of India University, Bangalore  We, the concerned students, researchers and teaching faculty, of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore express deep condolences on the sad demise of Mr. Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar in Science, Technology and Society Studies Programme at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). Rohith …

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Death of Merit or Merit of Death

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  T. Sowjanya “I came here through reservations and I sustain myself through the political solidarity of my dalit community!” is my firm answer to questions such as “Are you a dalit?” “Do you belong to category?” “Do you have any reservation?” These are the questions any dalit invariably faces one time or the other at …

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Rohith Vemula’s Institutional Homicide: Systemic Brahmanical Ramifications in Indian Academia

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Arpana Ingle The adjectives seem to be ceaseless when it comes to describing Rohith Vemula, a young Ambedkarite, politically vibrant, intellectual, bright, brave, courageous, student leader, activist fighting against injustice. Ambedkar had strongly asserted that ‘the village is nothing but a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism.’ These words of Ambedkar …

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Indefinite Hunger Strike: Press Release by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (UOH) dated 21st Jan, 2016

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  Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (UOH) 1. At a time when the legitimacy of Prof. Appa Rao to continue as Vice-Chancellor is in question, without attending to the protesting students who are on INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE, the absconding Vice-Chancellor and the Executive Committee met today (outside the campus) and issued a circular. We …