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Rohith Vemula, Prashanth, Vijay, Chendugmta and Rohit, research scholars of Hyderabad university, had been suspended, were sleeping in the open after expulsion from their hostels. The expulsion allowed the boys to continue their studies in the university but denied them entry to the hostels, administration building and other common places on groups.
A person committing suicide has one terribly eternal advantage at his disposal, it being his'clarity', confession, words, him 'self'. When Vladimir Mayakovsky's last poem, 'past one', written two nights he shot himself, the words, the clarity was excruciatingly chilling between a Stalinist regime discrediting his poetry and a failed love affair.
Rohith Vemula was known as a bright doctoral student who had secure a CSIR- Junior Research Fellowship and also as a dalit, who had been involved in campus activism on diverse issues: Ambedkarite politics, protests against penalty in the India criminal justice system, and communal violence in Muzaffarnagar in August-September 2013, which left many dead and thousands displaced, mostly Muslims.
It ll started after he was part of a small protest against the disruption of a film screening on the Muzaffarnagar riots in Delhi university by a Hindu right-wing student organization. But the exercise of such rights comes with a price, for the rhetoric of democracy doesn't match up to it's practices.
On Sunday, January 17, Rohith Vemula committed suicide by hanging himself using ASA's banner, on the 14th day of a sleep-in strike against the authorities following his expulsion from hostel, in a friend's hostel room.
The suicide of Rohith, saw protests by students of the Tata Institue of Social Sciences on Monday. The students at TISS boycotted classes, fieldwork and other academic engagements for the day. In the evening, they were shouting slogans. They condemned the role of BJP leaders and ABVP at UoH for their role in initiating the expulsion of the Dalit scholars, which allegedly led to the suicide.
Activists say the circumstances leading to Vemula's death were sparked by a letter from MR. Dattatrya to HRD minister Smriti Irani, charging the ASA with being "extremist" and "anti-national". The accusation of being casteist, extremist and anti-national must have broken his heart. How can a victim of cateism be a casteist? A case was, hence, filed against four persons, including Union Minister of State for Labour Bandaru Dattarya and the university's Vice-Chancellor P. Appa Rao.
N. Susheel Kumar had filed a complaint that five Dalit scholars of the ASA including Vemula had physically assaulted him leading to his hospitalization. MR. Kumar had also verbally accused the ASA of leading activities on the campus. MR. Kumar, student leader of ABVP of the UoH campus, was attended by Dr. Shivanand, chief executive officer of Archana Hospital, where he was admitted, said there were no marks of a "blunt trauma" as mentioned in his discharge report. He further mentioned, that except for a contusion on his left shoulder there were no other signs of injury. Even so, the ostensible reason for the suspension of Vemula and the four others was due to the clash between ASA and ABVP.
On Friday, at the convocation ceremony of Ambedkar University, Mr. Narendra Modi commented enough to mention Rohtith's name, but ambiguous enough about laying blame. Significantly, the Prime Minister's words came at the same time as HRD minister Irani spoke to Vemula's mother and assured her of judicial enquiry into the death of her son. The intention behind the PM's words had been to douse tempers and take the sting out of the nation wide protests that have taken place after Vemula's death, or at the very least convey to the BJP itself that it was digging itself deeper rather than out.
The suicide note that Rohith left, whose content is full of serious lessons for India's caste-ridden society.... In the note, Rohith says a growing gap between his soul and body made him feel he had become a monster. His suicide note, which was posted on social media, states categorically that no one is responsible for his act, a statement that should not be taken at face value.
The UoH announced an ex gratia of Rs. 8 Lakh for the family of Rohith Vemula.
Rohith Vemula, Prashanth, Vijay, Chendugmta and Rohit, research scholars of Hyderabad university, had been suspended, were sleeping in the open after expulsion from their hostels. The expulsion allowed the boys to continue their studies in the university but denied them entry to the hostels, administration building and other common places on groups.
A person committing suicide has one terribly eternal advantage at his disposal, it being his'clarity', confession, words, him 'self'. When Vladimir Mayakovsky's last poem, 'past one', written two nights he shot himself, the words, the clarity was excruciatingly chilling between a Stalinist regime discrediting his poetry and a failed love affair.
Rohith Vemula was known as a bright doctoral student who had secure a CSIR- Junior Research Fellowship and also as a dalit, who had been involved in campus activism on diverse issues: Ambedkarite politics, protests against penalty in the India criminal justice system, and communal violence in Muzaffarnagar in August-September 2013, which left many dead and thousands displaced, mostly Muslims.
It ll started after he was part of a small protest against the disruption of a film screening on the Muzaffarnagar riots in Delhi university by a Hindu right-wing student organization. But the exercise of such rights comes with a price, for the rhetoric of democracy doesn't match up to it's practices.
On Sunday, January 17, Rohith Vemula committed suicide by hanging himself using ASA's banner, on the 14th day of a sleep-in strike against the authorities following his expulsion from hostel, in a friend's hostel room.
The suicide of Rohith, saw protests by students of the Tata Institue of Social Sciences on Monday. The students at TISS boycotted classes, fieldwork and other academic engagements for the day. In the evening, they were shouting slogans. They condemned the role of BJP leaders and ABVP at UoH for their role in initiating the expulsion of the Dalit scholars, which allegedly led to the suicide.
Activists say the circumstances leading to Vemula's death were sparked by a letter from MR. Dattatrya to HRD minister Smriti Irani, charging the ASA with being "extremist" and "anti-national". The accusation of being casteist, extremist and anti-national must have broken his heart. How can a victim of cateism be a casteist? A case was, hence, filed against four persons, including Union Minister of State for Labour Bandaru Dattarya and the university's Vice-Chancellor P. Appa Rao.
N. Susheel Kumar had filed a complaint that five Dalit scholars of the ASA including Vemula had physically assaulted him leading to his hospitalization. MR. Kumar had also verbally accused the ASA of leading activities on the campus. MR. Kumar, student leader of ABVP of the UoH campus, was attended by Dr. Shivanand, chief executive officer of Archana Hospital, where he was admitted, said there were no marks of a "blunt trauma" as mentioned in his discharge report. He further mentioned, that except for a contusion on his left shoulder there were no other signs of injury. Even so, the ostensible reason for the suspension of Vemula and the four others was due to the clash between ASA and ABVP.
On Friday, at the convocation ceremony of Ambedkar University, Mr. Narendra Modi commented enough to mention Rohtith's name, but ambiguous enough about laying blame. Significantly, the Prime Minister's words came at the same time as HRD minister Irani spoke to Vemula's mother and assured her of judicial enquiry into the death of her son. The intention behind the PM's words had been to douse tempers and take the sting out of the nation wide protests that have taken place after Vemula's death, or at the very least convey to the BJP itself that it was digging itself deeper rather than out.
The suicide note that Rohith left, whose content is full of serious lessons for India's caste-ridden society.... In the note, Rohith says a growing gap between his soul and body made him feel he had become a monster. His suicide note, which was posted on social media, states categorically that no one is responsible for his act, a statement that should not be taken at face value.
The UoH announced an ex gratia of Rs. 8 Lakh for the family of Rohith Vemula.
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