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9 years since rohith vemula's institutional murder and nothing has changed

It was Rohith Vemula's death and protests that were the beginning of other protests in campuses across India. Campus by campus students and universities were called anti-national by ruling party, government and its supporters. JNU, DU, Aligarh University, Varanasi, Pune, Mumbai and multiple campuses in South were raising glorious slogans against the politics of right. In middle of this Zee News and godi media outlets broadcasted a video where protesters were shown sloganeering anti-India chants - the videos are now proven to be doctored by these channels. Kanhaiya Kumar and others were arrested on the basis of these doctored videos. Even today, hyena packs of shakha robots refer to protesters as 'tukde tukde gang' referring to the doctored videos. Naturally, if truth mattered to any of these hyenas they would have duly apologised and course corrected but no, truth is a convenient casualty in their fight to sink the secular republic so a new robo-republic of the right can take shape on the corpses of dalits, Muslims and others who do not believe in the ideology of division and Brahminical order.

It is this divisive politics and bigoted project you have to speak and act against. We have to dismantle the caste structure, its figures and everything that represents and prospers the idea of caste. In this regard, that statue of Manu in Rajasthan High Court must be brought down, all copies of Manu Smriti must be burnt just as Ambedkar burnt them, beef eating must go mainstream, beef festivals must get organised on public spaces for it was the beef that sent Dalits to the borders of villages sowing seeds of caste system. Beef eating is mentioned even in the starting texts of Hinduism - in Rigveda, a revered saint says he likes his beef tender, that of a calf. Brahmins were called killers of cow essentially because a cattle was slaughtered to feed them when they visited a house. Hinduism, that of Vedas and Ramayana isn't of vegetarianism. Original Ramayana of Valmiki has mention of so many meat dishes but later texts purged them for reasons known best to them. It was during later Shaivite tradition with Shankaracharya that campaign for vegetarianism in Brahmins and upper caste took shape and this campaign wasn't driven by ideas rooted in morality but to stop the spread of Buddhism and Jainism which propagated principles of non-violence. Even Buddhists weren't originally vegetarians, they campaigned against sacrificial slaughtering of animals which was rampant in Hinduism then and is even widespread today. Real vegetarians were Jains. As people started flocking in large numbers to these religions from Hinduism, feared Brahmins, to maintain their hegemony, started propagating vegetarianism. And so Dalits were pushed to boundaries of their villages, and thus superiority of nonsense started taking shape. Beef eating is as Hindu as Vedas are. Those who say beef eating isn't Hindu way of life are saying Vedas are anti-Hindu texts. Know this. Campaign against beef is extension of old system to create the other - dalits then and Muslims now - it is through this nonsense that they derive their strength and legitimacy from. Let them do their nonsense but let them not claim they are Hindus because eating beef is part of Hinduism as long as Vedas are termed Hindu texts, campaigning against beef eating is Brahminism, a narrow minded set of ideas whose purpose is to divide the society to maintain oppressive order. Beef is Hindu way of eating mentioned in Vedas and practised by early Hindus.

So have your beef, talk about it, hell, celebrate beef eating and while you're at it, also burn those copies of Manusmriti and take down that statue of Manu who said men are to be oppressed because they were born in different houses and women are to serve men because they are born differently or they are impure because they bleed. Take down that statue. Read Babasaheb Ambedkar. Educate, Agitate, Organize!

Jai Bhim!!

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Hours after the young scholar's suicide, thousands of protesters were on the streets, waving blue flags.

The deaths had left a trail; in Hyderabad Central University (HCU) alone five Dalit students committed suicide between 2008 and 2016. Though university authorities tried to erase the names—Senthil Kumar, Balaraj, Madari Venkatesh, Puliyala Raju—from memory, the ASA had kept track; be it in Raju-Venkatesh park or in the Senthil-Balaraj cricket night cup started in 2012. In acronyms painted on hostel walls, in ‘songs of resistance’ sung during protests, and in names reiterated in slogans, students remembered their counterparts who died because they were denied research supervisors, hostel accommodation, or scholarships.

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Telangana police forcibly detain Radhika Vemula and prevent her from entering the university to pay tribute to her son’s stupa.

All day, the university was charged with emotion on account of one year’s passing since the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula. At around 11:00 am in the morning, students garlanded the portrait of Rohith Vemula. It also served as a rallying call to mobilise the student community within the campus. After a short break for lunch, concerned students of the university gathered at shopping complex at 3:00 pm, where the velivada (dalit ghetto) is located. The event kicked off with Ambedkar Students Association leader, Dontha Prashanth reciting two letters written by Rohith Vemula to the University vice chancellor.

This was followed by songs dedicated to Rohith and his struggles. Next, as word spread that the guests were due to arrive on campus, the crowd divided into two lines and marched to the front gate, which was locked up by a combine of police officers and security guards under orders from the vice chancellor and the state government. The students broke open the chains binding the gates after intense pressure and forced the police to clear a path into the university. Then, the police began to grab the agitating students and placed them in the bus and detained them at Gachibowli station.

Meanwhile, at university, Radhikamma had arrived along with Raja Vemula, the sarvaiyas, Najeeb’s brother, and Rahul Sonpimple (suspended BAPSA leader from JNU). The most anticipated speaker of the day, Radhikamma, asserted in no uncertain terms that she would continue the struggle until she gets justice for her son’s institutional murder. She said that the government has been harassing her mentally by questioning her dalit identity, as well as that of her son. She said that dalits across the country should devote time at least during the summer vacation to study the writings of Dr. BR Ambedkar. She promised to participate in all debates across media channels, too.

After the guests concluded their address to the gathering, the students attempted to lead Radhikamma to the velivada to fulfil her most cherished wish of hugging her son’s stupa and garlanding it. However, in a ruthless act of barbarism, she was forced out of the location and bundled into a police van, which was kept in an isolated spot at Gachibowli stadium, before ferrying the detainees to the Gachibowli police station.

The names of the detainees are Radhika Vemula, Raja Vemula, Vijay Kumar, Syed Riyaz, Premila, Kavyashree, Dara Ashok, Ravali and reporter, Sudipto Mondal. An effigy of KCR was burnt in front of the main gate.

The student community is shocked by the insensitivity of the police and the Telangana government towards a mother who lost her son. We demand a safe return of Radhikamma to the campus, along with the rest of the detained students.

For more details, contact – Bala – 9949960938, Nikhil Cariappa – 8527179821, Ijas – 8593903858

Jai Bhim,

Justice for Rohith Vemula.

Joint Action Committee for Social Justice – UOH.

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10 years on, how Vemula’s death forced policy shifts| India News

The house reveals itself in fragments. A charpoy stands pushed against the wall. The checked bed sheet draped over it has thinned with washing. Across the walls, damp has bloomed in pale greys and browns. The paint curls at the edges. Rohith Vemula, a PHD student, died by suicide at the University of Hyderabad following months of caste discrimination. (Hindustan Times) The wall opposite is…

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Rohith Vemula - From Stardust to Galaxy

Rohith Vemula – From Stardust to Galaxy

Two years back, Rohith Vemula set the world on fire. The letter that he left behind after his departure from the world of mortals was read, reread, analyzed, re-analyzed, thought, rethought, and was widely circulated. What Rohith set in motion is the wheel of his own volition: the volition that sought freedom from all manmade identities, freedom from all manmade structures that oppress humanity,…

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