Not all are ready to write off the inquiry committee but some on the IIT Bombay campus who have deposed before it expressed disappointment over the fact that not …
Author: Sukanya Shantha
Pakistani Student Who Had Travelled to India For Love Repatriated, Returns Home With Family
Iqra Jewani's is perhaps one of the very few cases where an illegal entrant from Pakistan has been repatriated in less than a month. The teenager had travelled through …
Dalit Student’s Suicide Points to Well-Known – But Ignored – Caste Discrimination in IITs
Mental health concerns, students at IIT Bombay say, can't be looked at in isolation from other factors that determine the atmosphere on campus.
IIT Bombay Cancels Conference on Left Movement After ‘Call From Senior Official’ in Edu Ministry
The decision was announced past midnight, just a day before the scheduled event. In the email, organisers noted they were 'forced' to cancel it.
HC Paves Way for Boy With Cerebral Palsy to Pursue MBBS After Maha Govt Denies Certificate
Manthan Sawai, with disability assessed at 73%, was recently denied an eligibility certificate by the state Disability Certification Board to pursue an MBBS course. The rule only set a …
Maharashtra’s Anganwadi Workers Have Had It With the Government’s Apathy
Despite Anganwadi workers playing a pivotal role in the national child development scheme, they have not been recognised as full-time workers but as those doing 'voluntary work'. They are …
Citing Covid Burden, NCERT Drops Mentions of Caste Discrimination From Sociology Textbook
These deletions from the Class XII textbook are among the series of other prominent removals and revisions – including the 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of building …
After IIM Kozhikode Reveals Postgrad Students’ Castes, Spotlight Returns to Discrimination on Campus
The administration has since issued an 'apology' for having 'inadvertently shared the documents'. But students believe that cannot make up for the trauma they have faced.
Afghan Students at SAU Say University Is Withholding Stipend, Showing No Empathy
Students who are currently in Delhi say they are being targeted by the administration and not being allowed to stay on campus, even though they have nowhere else to …