Institutionalising the memory of Senthil's death

It is most unfortunate that Univ of Hyd has only been keen on washing its hands of the responsibility of the death of Senthil. Soon after his death, University withheld the post mortem report, which said it was a suicide. The VC ignored Ambedkar Students’ Association’s demand that an immediate relief of Rs 7 lakh be given to the grieved family. He also rejected the SC/ST joint action committee’s demand for an enquiry by a sitting judge. And finally when the report of the committee set up by the University indicated that the prevailing academic conditions at the School of Physics would have led to the death of Senthil, the VC came up with a press statement that Senthil’s death has nothing to do with caste discrimination, and that no action would be taken against anyone in this matter. Though the committee actually absolves the School of Physics of caste discrimination, its report clearly says that many ‘discrepancies and ambiguities’ had crept into the assessment of students in the Department of Physics since 2006, and that Dalit students, in particular, were victims of these discrepancies which in turn led them to believe that the department was ‘casteist.’

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Press meet on 07-05-2008

This is to inform all of you that Senthilkumar Solidarity Committee is organizing a press meet tomorrow to challenge the statements made by HCU VC that Senthil's suicide has nothing to do with caste discrimination and that the university will not take any action against anybody for this suicide. His statement distorts the findings of the Pavrala Committee report that he himself had commissioned. We wish to invite you all to attend this press meet.

Venue: Press Club, Basheer Bagh
Time: 11.00 AM

The Solidarity Committee has invited the following academicians and pubic intellectuals to speak on this issue:

Kancha Ilaiah
P.L.Vishveshwara Rao
Susie Tharu
Gogu Shyamala
Muthaiah
Veena Shatrugna
K.Balagopal
Rama Melkote
K.Satyanarayana
K.G.Kannabiran
Bojja Tarakam
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