Dying for DALITS (the Untouchables)

In his death, Rohith Vemula has emerged as a symbol of protest against injustice and indignity.

The 26-year-old PhD student killed himself on Sunday :

inside the campus of Hyderabad Central University.

Mr Vemula was a member of the Ambedkar Students' Association, which fights for the rights of Dalit

(formerly known as untouchable) students on the campus.

He was one of five Dalit students who were protesting against their expulsion from

the university's housing facility.

Suicide Note :

"I always looked at the stars and wanted to be a writer, a writer of science like Carl Sagan.

But in the end, this is the only letter I am going to write,".

"I loved science, stars, nature - but then I loved people without knowing that

people have long since divorced from nature.

Our feelings are second hand. Our love is artificial, our beliefs colored.

It has become truly difficult to love without getting hurt,"

"For some people life itself is a curse. My birth is my fatal accident.

I can never recover from my childhood loneliness.

I am not hurt at this moment. Not sad, just empty.

That is pathetic.

That is why I am doing this."

Why, Rohit , WHY ?

                   

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"Rohith was disturbed that the vice-chancellor was not responding to all the protest

and the fact that he was being treated like a pariah,"

Caste system in India : should be abolished ... NOW !!

where is Kwami and SCA  ?  :-\