More than 1500 students and faculty members from universities across the country and other members of civil society have written a letter to the IISc Director expressing their concern on an Indo-Israel summit that was held in IISc.
30 June 2023 Prof. Govindan Rangarajan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Dear Prof. Rangarajan, We are a group of scientists and academics. Our group… Read More »Letter to IISc Director
We mourn yet another student suicide on this campus. Darshan Solanki, an 18 year old Dalit student jumped off from his hostel building on Sunday, February 12. A life of dreams and ambitions came to an abrupt end.
The family and community of the young man would forever wonder what went wrong with their bright child and a premier institute. There will be explanations of how he could not survive the competition, that the academic pressure is ruthless, and the IIT-dream is only for the strong-willed. We do not know what pushed him to this end: caste discrimination or unendurable stress. What we know for sure is this is an institutional issue. Let us stop looking at student suicides across campuses as isolated incidents.
So begins the statement by Ambedkar-Periyar-Phule Study Circle (APPSC) IIT Bombay on the intstituional murder of a young student.
Date: 31 January 2023
We are a group of Indian scientists and academics.
We are dismayed at the censorship of the two-part BBC documentary, “India: the Modi Question”. The Indian government has had the documentary removed from social media under the pretext that it is “undermining the sovereignty and integrity of India”. This justification does not withstand scrutiny and the removal violates our rights, as Indians, to access and discuss important information about our society and government.
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