Topic: Casteism in India

Teachers at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, have joined former students in demanding that caste quotas be enforced during admissions to the Fellow Programme in Management, forcing authorities to schedule a meeting on the subject.

"Rohith including five other Dalit scholars were socially boycotted by the University Administration in 2016 in HCU campus reminding us of the same caste untouchability and physical segregation that we have grown up since childhood." Sumeet Samod, a Dalit rapper and researcher from JNU said.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who belongs to the Ezhava community, on Thursday said that people continued to talk about his caste.

The girl’s family and Bhim army demanded a compensation of ₹1 crore, a government job to the victim’s elder sister and early arrest of the accused.

The only son of Sunil Suna and Hansamani Suna, Rashmi was a first-generation marginalized student hailing from Western Odisha. After defying all odds, he started his journey at the UoH in 2012 as an MSc student of Physics. Presently he was in the 4th year of the Ph.D. programme when the incompetent HCU medical center and Himagiri hospital failed to save a precious life. Known as a very meritorious and workaholic scholar, Rashmi has co-authored two papers, "Amplified measurement of weak optical activity using a spin-phase-gradient beam" in the Journal of Optics Letters and "Spin-orbit beams for optical chirality measurement" in the Journal of Applied Physics Letters, respectively. Rashmi had already been selected for an International Conference, "SPIE Photonics West 2019" to be held in San Francisco, USA. His father Sunil, despite being a farmer, had provided good education to Rashmi and his sister, who is presently pursuing her Certificate in Teaching (CT) course in Nabarangpur. His death is a huge loss to his family, community, village, and academics as well. He would have been a great inspiration for many other kids in his native place.

If Prof. Ilaiah’s books are insulting Hinduism, how would Delhi University read the seminal texts and Essays like Castes in India, Annihilation of Caste, Riddles in Hinduism authored by the Philosopher and Boddisatva Babasaheb Dr. BR Ambedkar.