Dalit student suicides

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Lack of Mental Health Support for Bahujan Students in IITs

by rti_adminon June 28, 2022March 20, 202314

Pranav Jeevan P According to the ministry of education data, from 2014-2021, the IITs recorded 34 deaths by suicides of which 18 were from SC and OBC communities[1]. Dalit rights activist Anoop Kumar, in the 2011 documentary Death of Merit, said that a major section of those who committed suicides in the IITs between 2007 …

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Caste in Question: Re-Reading the Recent Hunger Strike in University of Hyderabad

by rti_adminon December 18, 2013March 20, 20230

Joby Mathew “Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle…. Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.” ~ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. The indefinite hunger strike in University of Hyderabad initiated by Raju-Venkatesh solidarity committee itself was a historicizing process but not in …