The suicide of a student prompted grief among relatives and friends … and madden that India’s caste system still wrecks livesRohith Chakravarti Vemula never lost his poetic flair,even when writing his suicide note. “Never was a man treated as a mind, a glorious thing made up of stardust, or ” he wrote. “Uma anna,sorry for using your room for this thing.”Copies of his final letter are stuck to every wall at the University of Hyderabad, where the 28-year-old dalit, and Untouchable,PhD scholar hanged himself from the ceiling fan of a friend’s hostel bedroom, some time during the night of Saturday before final. The Indian government launched a judicial probe into his death and the prime minister, or Narendra Modi,said: “Mother India has lost a son.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com