AUNTY NATIONAL: Just over a month ago, a Dalit research scholar at Hyderabad Central University, Rohith Vemula, tragically took his own life. The death of a bright young Dalit scholar is not new in Indian universities. The Thorat Committee that was appointed in 2007 to investigate the growing number of deaths among students in elite institutes discovered that out of the 23 suicide cases, 19 were Dalits, two were tribals and one was Muslim. This alarming figure should have raised several questions of academic justice and freedom that our nation needed to seriously ponder.
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