Anand Azaad

As the sad news of student activist Rohith Vemula’s suicide had hit the nation, political vultures started feeding on the tragedy tagging it Dalit vs Non-Dalit battle. Suicides are often reasoned with failure in life but the question arises that how can an activist who has himself dared to choose to serve people transit to a mindset which prompted him to take the decision. The answer is deep buried in brother Rohith’s suicide note. As main-stream media was busy discussing this incident in prime-time debates, social media saw a different trend. The dominant youth on the micro-blogging platform twitter was mourning the sad demise of a research scholar but was vocally mentioning out their immediate reaction by trending‪ #‎StopIdentityPolitics. They were disappointed to see a student activist's suicide turn into Dalit suicide. Rohith didn’t stand for this in his last moments, which is adamant from what he wrote in his suicide note. “The value of a man was reduced to his imme...