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Death of a Scholar- Rohith Vemula

At age of 26, Rohith Vemula Died, cold murdered, homicide Left his legacy of fight Against atrocious tide Of mislaid humanity Death too wonders, What killed him tender? Injustice if condemned, I too would have delayed Avoided brazen condolences Perpetrators of this heinous act Unfazed by a scholars death Like Vultures on corpse Alas! they don’t realize His thoughts will survive eternity Transcending all forms of inequality In the sea of inhumanity Guiding light for many "Rohith" a new star is born, for world to see And salute its immortality ..raHUL

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Skat A

Date: 6/21/2016 12:21:00 AM

GOOD POEM, R G...SKAT

Rahul Gade

Date: 1/20/2016 4:12:00 PM

wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Rohith_Vemula Rohith Vemula (30 January 1989 – 18 January 2016)[1] was a PhD student at the Hyderabad Central University. His suicide sparked protests and outrage from across India and gained widespread media attention as an alleged case of discrimination against Dalits and backward classes in India in which elite educational institutions have been purportedly seen as an enduring vestige of caste-based discrimination against students belonging to "lower classes".