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When A Campus Mourns: Collective Loss And Leaving Inertia Behind 
By Aparna Vincent & Sinjini Bhattacharya

http://www.countercurrents.org/avsb210116.htm

Two research scholars of University of Hyderabad express the sadness and anger that prevail in the campus after the suicide of Rohith Vemula. They end this article with these lines, "What awaits the future of this campus, only time can tell. It has become obvious , to all of us who live in this space, that there is an urgent need to fight wherever and whenever justice is at stake."


Rohith Vemula Didn’t Commit Suicide, It’s A Systemic Murder
By National Alliance of People’s Movements

http://www.countercurrents.org/napm210116.htm

Time to rise above narrow political interests and fight for dignity and justice and ending caste discrimination - Urgent intervention sought from the judiciary, and Honourable President - Stop inducing the Casteist and Fascist agenda in educational institutes


Rising Ambedkarite Assertion Is The Biggest Challenge To Brahmanical Hegemony In India 
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat210116.htm

The University Vice Chancellor need to own the responsibility apart from the Union HRD Minister and the other minister Bandaru Datratreya. As I said Dalit students face deep rooted prejudices in our campuses and isolation is not the issue. Will the government ask the universities to form special committees so when such cases come they are handed sensitively? Can we ask the government to make stricter law so that students do not face harassment because of their caste, identities and ideologies?


Rohith Vemula’s Suicide Shows The Need For A Politics Of Intersection 
By Kishalaya Mukhopadhyay

http://www.countercurrents.org/km210116.htm

Much of identity politics also uses the same approach as the dogmatic Marxist one – that of giving primacy to a particular identity as the “main” one . Instead of sweating over trying to find the “common minimum program” based on interests, it would be much easier to forge solidarity on the basis of mutual empathy


Educate, Agitate, Organise: The Dalit Student Won’t Be Silenced 
By Cynthia Stephen

http://www.countercurrents.org/stephen210116.htm

Not just the academy - the higher echelons of the bureaucracy, the professions, the media, the private sector - all these spaces are now changing, and likely to become - for better or for worse - much more diverse than in the past, and the ascendance of the ruling classes and castes is being breached slowly and steadily, increasing scope for friction in the near term. Hence, it is time for those who live in ivory towers and gated and walled palaces to understand that in the best and most just and democratic way possible, there is change afoot


First And Last Letter Of An Aborted Writer 
By Daljit Ami

http://www.countercurrents.org/ami210116.htm

Rohith Vemula's letter should be read repeatedly because it is a last letter written by a contemporary to his anonymous contemporaries. This is not the final letter of our times. This is not the first letter of Rohith. He had written a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University on 18 December 2015. That letter also needs to be read; because the two letters share much in common which connect Rohith's death and life together in a string


A Posthumous Interview With Rohith Vemula 
By C.P Surendran

http://www.countercurrents.org/cps210116.htm

"Why did you take this extreme measure? And you have used for your hanging the blue banner of the Ambedkar Students’ Association? Are you making a statement?"


Condemn Casteist Actions of Hyderabad University Authorities
By PUDR

http://www.countercurrents.org/pudr210116.htm

PUDR strongly condemns the authorities of the Central University of Hyderabad for their caste based victimisation of Dalit students, which, on 17th January, 2016, resulted in Rohith Vemula , a Dalit Research Scholar in Science Technology and Society Studies in the University, committing suicide


The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud 
By Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.countercurrents.org/pcr210116.htm

When America fails, so will Washington’s vassal states in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Unless Washington destroys the world in nuclear war, the world will be remade, and the corrupt and dissolute West will be an insignificant part of the new world


New Report On Gates Foundation’s “Corporate Merry-Go-Round”: 
Spearheading The Neo-Liberal Plunder Of African Agriculture
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter210116.htm
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture


Defined By Nakba And Exile: The Complex Reality Of ‘Home’ For Palestinians 
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud210116.htm

After examining profiles, reviewing hundreds of answered questionnaires and conducting thorough interviews with many refugees, it became clear to us that in the minds of all Palestinians, the Nakba is not a separate question to be discussed and resolved through political concessions or pressures. Nor was it a legal question either, one so convoluted that it needed to be assigned to the ‘final status negotiations’ between Israel and the PLO – negotiations which never happened anyway. Even Palestinians who seem unlikely to exercise their right of return consider their lives within the context of the Nakba and exile as an essential one


Kashmir: Flood Prevention Measures 
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf210116.htm

The most important and the very first act of the “popular” government should have been to take action to prevent the future floods. Nothing tangible seems to have been done so far!