---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Teesta Setalvad <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:23 PM Subject: Rohith’s death: We are all to blame To: Teesta Setalvad <[email protected]>
https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/rohith%E2%80%99s-death-we-are-all-blame Rohith’s death: We are all to blame Written by Teesta Setalvad <https://www.sabrangindia.in/articles/teesta-setalvad> | Published on: January 19, 2016 *Supply Sodium Cynanide and a Rope to every Dalit student-Rohit to the VC a month before he took his life* This letter, dated December 18, 2015 has not been so widely quoted nor has it gone viral. It is a comment on all of us, especially those of us in the media, that we failed to read the warnings or feel the anguish. After all it is since August 2015 that the social boycott and ostracizing of Dalit students, including Rohitjhah was systematically afoot. That is close to five months ago…. https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/indias-not-so-hidden-apartheid *India's Not So Hidden Apartheid* Written by Karthikeyan Damodaran <https://www.sabrangindia.in/articles/karthikeyan-damodaran> | Published on: January 19, 2016 Dalit Students as Victims of Institutional Casteism in India Re published from http://routesblog.com/2016/01/19/dalit-students-as-victims-of-institutio... <http://routesblog.com/2016/01/19/dalit-students-as-victims-of-institutional-casteism-in-india/> India’s unparalleled revolutionary leader B.R.Ambedkar’s infamous dictum is ‘Educate, Agitate, Organise,’ none of which the Indian Brahmanical state wants the 200 million Dalits (former untouchables) to do and this intentional objective of the state was exemplified in the death of an young Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula of University of Hyderabad who aspired to become a scientist like Carl Sagan.... https://sabrangindia.in/article/letter-should-shake-our-world-dalit-scholar-suicide-triggers-outrage *A letter that should shake our world: Dalit scholar suicide triggers outrage* Published on: January 18, 2016 Rohith (right) carrying a poster of Ambedkar along with other belongings, after his suspension *Rohith Vemula will live on * *Anguished and shocked at Rohith’s death, expelled students vow to continue the protest with support of others* Nationwide protests will take place following the suicide by Vemula Rohith, a Dalit student at the university of Hyderabad (UoH) on the evening of Sunday, January 17. The first protest, spontaneous and angry, took place at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) late night, about 9.30 p.m. on Sunday January 17, 2016 itself. Vemula Rohith left a poignant suicide note before he took his life by hanging himself in the room of a colleague-friend in Hyderabad..... https://www.sabrangindia.in/image-story/campus-outrage-dalit-scholar-suicide-triggers-protests-across-cities *IMAGE STORY <https://www.sabrangindia.in/image-stories>* *Campus Outrage: Dalit scholar suicide triggers protests across cities * https://sabrangindia.in/article/text-and-context-how-16-month-old-video-clip-today%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98breaking-news%E2%80%99 Text and context: How a 16-month-old video clip is today’s ‘breaking news’ Written by Javed Anand <https://sabrangindia.in/articles/javed-anand> | Published on: January 18, 2016 Looking for some reference material on the subject, I did a Google search this morning on ‘Islam and women’. To my shock and horror the ‘lead’ news headline that leapt out of page 1 was this: “Allah allows Muslims to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them, claims Islamic professor”. Source of the News? *Zee News*.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
