Bullied by academic staff, barred from the university laboratory and even denied a chair, Deepa P Mohanan despaired of ever being able to finish her PhD as a low-caste Indian woman. But then she decided to fight back. Mohanan, who is researching on nanomedicine, became a poster girl for tens of thousands of fellow Dalit students when she went on hunger strike to protest
Chennai, India: Bullied by academic staff, barred from the university laboratory and even denied a chair, Deepa P. Mohanan despaired of ever being abl.
The BK-16: Dhawale, Gadling, Raut, Wilson, Ferreira, Bharadwaj, Rao, Gonsalves, Teltumbde, Navlakha, Tarayil, Gorkhe, Gaichor, Jagtap and Fr Stan Swamy. The system that has incarcerated them is brutal, rotten and unjust. They suffer today in jail because they believed in the idea of India, in the Constitution, in the ‘we the people’, in the rights of the excluded and the exploited.