---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sampangi Shanker <[email protected]> Date: 22 March 2013 22:22 Subject: Death of a Student: Personal Tragedy or National Shame? Posted: 22 March 2013 By: Asma Rasheed, K. Satyanarayana & Uma Bhruguband To: [email protected], [email protected], Mohan Dharavath < [email protected]>, Raju Nayak <[email protected]>, "V.Venkatesh Nayak" <[email protected]>, Patil Sundeep <[email protected]>, nainala satish <[email protected]>, devulapally kotesh < [email protected]>, Gurram Seetaramulu <[email protected]>, krishna halavat <[email protected]>
*Asma Rasheed, K. Satyanarayana* and *Uma Bhrugubanda* *[image: m 1]* The suicide of Mudasir Kamran, a Kashmiri research scholar at the EFL University, Hyderabad has been described as "a personal issue" both by the university administration as well as other sections of society. Far from being so, we argue, his death is a symptom of a failure to acknowledge and respond to major shifts in higher education today. In fact, the act of naming it "personal" absolves the University as well as all of us of any responsibility for this tragic turn of events and precludes a critical reflection on the education system in India. Since 2009, sixteen new central universities have been added to the existing twenty-four. These have increased the number of students from dalit, adivasi and minority communities who are struggling to enter and persevere in the face of unwelcoming, stultified academic and administrative structures. On the one hand, the Government has recognized the importance of supporting and nurturing groups that were hitherto excluded from educational opportunities through scholarship schemes like the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC/ST students and the Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minorities. On the other hand, this is not matched by a corresponding over-hauling of existing institutional cultures. Our universities have remain mired in older regimes of elitist, casteist and sexist thought and practice that refuse to engage with and adapt to new student needs, let alone challenges to established knowledge structures. This fact is underscored by the recent reports of a disturbingly large number of suicides by dalit students in premier institutions. Read Full article : http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6348:death-of-a-student-personal-tragedy-or-national-shame-&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132 -- Shankar Sampangi EFL-University-Hyderabad. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EFLU Cultural Studies" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Vipin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
