This time it was another research scholar
and another central university. And he was not Dalit.
A research scholar from the Central
University of Rajasthan committed suicide because, allegedly, he was under
depression by pressure and harassment from his research advisor.
These are allegations – allegations that
forced the nation to take note when Rohith Vemula committed suicide – because there
were inbuilt elements of Dalit politics – and because, rightly there were elements
of caste discrimination.
We have discussed why the Rohith’s case
took the nation by storm and why the Villupuram case failed to do so.
Politics dear folks! Politics!
Stay assure that nothing is going to happen
in this Central University of Rajasthan case – as nothing concrete in fact
happened in Rohith Vemula’s case – in spite of media outrage and the subsequent
national grief. No one, including anyone from the University of Hyderabad, has
been held responsible in the case.
Suicide by three students of the SVS
College of Naturopathy and Yoga in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuam (or spate of student
suicides that were reported after Rohith Vemula incident or even this one from
the Central University of Rajasthan) is sans scopes of political mileage and so
we are not going to hear much about them.
Yes, it was about three girl students, who
were Dalit, and they allegedly committed suicide because they were left in a
hopeless state – and it happened within a week of Rohith Vemula incident (January
17 to January 23) – so it did get due media exposure. But politicians were not
there. Likewise, there will be no outrage or scrutiny of this incident at the
Central University of Rajasthan. If it has to get, it will get just routine
coverage.
Because these incidents happen in one of
those educational institution which are established to dupe and loot incidents.
The quality of students (or professionals) who pass out from these outfits is
poor. And most of the time, some politicians are found behind the projects –
either directly or in patronizing positions.
These institutions are either in small towns
or in peripheries of bigger, metro cities (in a clutter of clusters – with no
differentiation) – busy in deceiving dreams.
So no one likes to talk about them,
including media and society, even if it directly affects many families, sucking
up their earnings of whole life – circumstances that force sincere students to
the extremes of hopelessness.
Educational institutions in India are run
with dictatorial mindset. Government run institutions including central and
state universities and most professional colleges are fiefdoms of their
administrative heads, teachers and officers. And almost private academic institution
are like mercenary banks who operate on ‘no return’ policy.
The first that they do is – they kill the culture of healthy dissent – and in the process sacrifice universal values of humanity.
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