Citizens for Justice and Peace
60 Dalit students in Bihar threaten suicide
02-Feb-2016
Amarnath Tewary Patna, February 2, 2016 Sixty Dalit students from Bihar, who are studying engineering in Orissa, have threatened to commit suicide after the Bihar government allegedly stopped paying their stipends to the college, and the students were forced to leave the institution. All the 60 students had secured their admission in Rajdhani Engineering College,…
Vested interests trying to show Rohith was not Dalit: Karnataka CM
02-Feb-2016
In a letter to Vemula’s mother Radhika, Siddaramaiah expressed regret that the university campus has become a “place for unscrupulous elements to achieve their politically motivated, caste-based agenda.” By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, 2016 6:40 pm Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has condemned the attempts by “vested interests” for projecting the Hyderabad…
Thousands from city demand justice for Rohith
02-Feb-2016
• 2 Feb 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent htmetro@hindustantimes.com Activists, students, social workers want action against those responsible for Dalit scholar’s suicide MUMBAI: Thousands of students, political activists and social workers came out on the streets to protest against the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad. Sporting caps that read…
Rohith Vemula’s suicide: This is what Carl Sagan’s wife had to say about his death
01-Feb-2016
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 11:14 am “I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. I loved Science, Stars, Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second handed. Our love is…
Rohith Vemula suicide: ‘Tamasha’ politics, says BJP after Cong sharpens attack
01-Feb-2016
“Rohith’s is not the first incident (suicide)…10 (such suicides) incidents have happened during Congress regime. Nobody had time. No Sonia, no Rahul and no Digvijay Singh, ” Naidu said. By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 1, 2016 12:39 am The war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the…
Police beat me, didn’t even let me sip water: DSSW student
01-Feb-2016
A number of other protesters, predominantly JNU and Delhi University students, also painted a grim picture of the police action against them during a demonstration over dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide on January 30. By: PTI | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 10:11 pm A Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) student, who was…
Police beat me, didn’t even let me sip water: DSSW student
01-Feb-2016
A number of other protesters, predominantly JNU and Delhi University students, also painted a grim picture of the police action against them during a demonstration over dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide on January 30. By: PTI | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 10:11 pm A Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) student, who was…
‘Bid to make non-Dalit a Dalit’
01-Feb-2016
Vikas Pathak NEW DELHI, February 1, 2016 For us, Rohith Vemula was a son of Mother India: BJP. A day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that Rohith Vemula — the Hyderabad University student who allegedly committed suicide — was “not a Dalit,” BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain saw the political controversy around his death…
Rohith Vemula’s suicide: This is what Carl Sagan’s wife had to say about his death
01-Feb-2016
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 11:14 am “I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. I loved Science, Stars, Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second handed. Our love is…
‘Bid to make non-Dalit a Dalit’
01-Feb-2016
Vikas Pathak NEW DELHI, February 1, 2016 For us, Rohith Vemula was a son of Mother India: BJP. A day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that Rohith Vemula — the Hyderabad University student who allegedly committed suicide — was “not a Dalit,” BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain saw the political controversy around his death…