Dalit Students and India’s hostile higher education sector

These are Rohith Vemula’s last words from his suicide note before he hanged himself to death on 17 January. Rohith, a Dalit research scholar at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), was expelled from his hostel, along with four other researchers, two weeks ago.

Rohith’s suicide note hints at both discrimination and injustice, triggering yet another debate on the fate of Dalits in higher education in India. Social media is witnessing a war between the pro-Dalit and anti-quota brigades.

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