Education was promised as a way out of caste: where schools and universities break it, and where they keep it in place.
Three years after Darshan Solanki's death, another Dalit student has died at IIT Bombay, and the institute's first account again centred on the student. Students want many of the same reforms.
Just like cancer, casteism is a disease. But casteism is worse. It's like the coronavirus. It endangers people at large. But there was a vaccine to cure Covid, and similarly, the Rohith Act is a cure for casteism.
students who died by suicide at India's 23 IITs between 2020-21 and 2024-25 were from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe (Adivasi, or Indigenous) or Other Backward Class (OBC) communities, a broad group of historically disadvantaged castes.
Three years after Darshan Solanki's death, another Dalit student has died at IIT Bombay, and the institute's first account again centred on the student. Students want many of the same reforms.
Telangana named a bill after Rohith Vemula in April and gave it to five ministers. Five months on, it hasn't said whom the law would protect, while his movement has already published its own.