Rohith Vemula's Suicide: Prejudice And VIP Pressure To Blame?

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Rohith Vemula's Suicide: Prejudice And VIP Pressure To Blame?

As the student protest rage on across the country over the suicide by a Hyderabad University's Dalit scholar, politicians make a beeline at the varsity to draw political mileage out of the tragedy. We debate, was it prejudice on the campus or political interference or a combination of both that drove Rohith to suicide?

'Onus On Kashmiri Pandits To Return, No One Will Beg Them': Farooq Abdullah

Today marks 26 years since the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. While Pandits still wait to return home, in remarks that have sparked a controversy, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has said the "onus is on Pandits to come back". Mr Farooq, who said he has personally tried many times to bring the Pandits home, said that no one will go "with a begging bowl" to ask them to return.

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