Topic: Institutional murder
“Specify steps taken to end caste discrimination in campuses”: SC asks to UGC in plea by mothers of Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought the University Grants Commission’s response in a PIL filed by the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, for guidelines for creating an enabling environment for students belonging to Dalit and Adivasi communities in higher education institutes.
Kerala student suicide: Amid rousing protests, Amal Jyothi College closed, students refuse to vacate hostel
Following the death by suicide of a 20-year-old female student in Kerala’s Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, hundreds of students took out a protest against the college authorities, alleging them of mentally harassing her prior to her passing.
DU: Faculty who was found dead after losing his job belonged to OBC community
Samarveer Singh, the 33-year-old former ad-hoc teacher from Delhi University who died by suicide days after being displaced in the ongoing recruitment process, belonged to the Other Backward Caste (OBC) community.
Displaced Hindu College teacher’s death prompts calls for protest against “institutional murder”
Samarvir, a former ad-hoc assistant professor in the department of philosophy at Delhi University’s Hindu College allegedly died by suicide on Wednesday days after he was displaced in the ongoing recruitment process.
“He was harrased because of Dalit identity. He told me about this,” says IIT-B student Darshan’s father
In a 58-second public appeal video, Ramesh Solanki, father of the first-year B Tech Dalit student at IIT Bombay, who died by suicide on 12 February, asked people to participate in a candle march on 19 February so that “Darshan gets justice."
How many more Darshans and Anikets need to die?
A day after an 18-year-old Dalit student of IIT Bombay, Darshan Solanki, allegedly died by suicide due to discrimination, the APPSC (Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle) IIT Bombay, stated Darshan’s death is not a suicide, but an institutional murder.
