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IITH'21

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

Another suicide in IIT. Rourkee this time.
2 weeks ago there was suicide in IIT Dhanbad. Almost a month before tht Sahil Wakode suicide in IIT Bombay

This system is broken. On avg, every 5 weeks there is a death on an IIT campus. Why is this not priority for Education Ministry?

[Priyanka Bharti @priyanka2bharti]

पूरे कॉलेजियम पर ये तस्वीर गहरे सवाल खड़ी करती रहेगी!

जस्टिस कर्णन को अंतिम जोहार 🙏🏾

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Will Sahil Wakode’s family get justice? Advocate Prakash Ambedkar says the student’s parents have been left demanding answers after allegedly being told that the IIT Bombay professor in question will not be arrested. The family is seeking a CBI or IIT-led probe and an early hearing before the Bombay High Court. @journovidya brings the conversation on #ReportersGroundReport.

#SahilWakode #IITBombaySuicideCase #CBI #StudentsDiscrimination

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

Yet another death on an IIT campus. This time Dhanbad.
It is chilling how every month there is a death on an IIT campus-- & yet life goes on.
14th death on IIT campus this year. Meanwhile Sahil Wakode's parents are still on protest. Nothing changes, IIT system remains unmoved!

[Ravi Ratan @scribe_it]

Hey @neha_aisa
This is Adv Disha Wadekar. She’s Ambedkarite She’s Dalit

The UGC Regulations itself
came into being following a six-year long legal battle in the Supreme Court of India led by Adv Disha for a petition filed by Rohith and Payals mothers.

And you have the audacity to talk about Ambedkarites not protesting against UGC roll back?

Dalit and anti caste activist, and parties work harder and longer for justice and make substantial change in society . Look what Mayawati has achieved in Northen India, VBA has achieved in Maha. They are usually boycotted by media
Because they are not previlege Savarna like you.

Disha Wadekar would be a national icon if she was Disha Bora. @WadekarDisha

[Rahul sonpimple @Sonpimplerahul]

Forget @neha_aisa Bora. What my years at JNU have taught me, and what my experiences in Delhi have repeatedly confirmed, is that the hostility towards Ambedkar and Ambedkarites within sections of the cultural liberal-left is neither incidental nor merely a matter of ideological disagreement. It runs much deeper: a structural antagonism, a resentment that periodically resurfaces whenever those who have historically occupied positions of intellectual and cultural authority feel secure enough to express it.

I have encountered this disdain across Delhi’s self-proclaimed liberal, Gandhian, socialist and left intellectual circles. The labels may differ, but the underlying contempt for Ambedkar, Ambedkarites and their emancipatory politics often remains remarkably consistent. Historically, many of these circles have also shared close political and cultural affinities with the Congress establishment in Delhi. Even in my interactions with people like Yogendra Yadav, I have sensed this barely concealed condescension towards Ambedkarite politics.

The fundamental contradiction is that the liberal-left can celebrate universal emancipation in the abstract while remaining deeply uncomfortable with the actual political assertion of those whose emancipation would disrupt its own inherited cultural and intellectual authority. Ambedkar is welcome as a constitutional icon, a photograph or a ceremonial reference, but Ambedkarite politics becomes inconvenient when it challenges the hierarchy of who gets to speak, interpret history and define the terms of emancipation.

So spare me the rhetoric of the 'larger struggle' if that struggle cannot accommodate Ambedkar, Ambedkarites and their historical experience of humiliation and exclusion. A politics that demands solidarity from our people while harbouring contempt for their intellectual traditions and political assertion is not emancipatory. It is simply another way of reproducing the very hierarchy it claims to oppose.

[Deepali_Salve @deepali_writes]

When the state ignores a grieving mother, the state forfeits its legitimacy. This system protects the powerful and tramples on the innocent.

Sahil’s fight is now everyone’s fight, we will tear down this culture of silence and demand total accountability!

#JusticeForSahil

[Rahul sonpimple @Sonpimplerahul]

“mere tax ka paisa hai, naukar ho tum humare”, reminds one of the protestors to police

Dalit-Ambedkarites do not need permission of police to be at Chaityabhoomi.

[Rahul sonpimple @Sonpimplerahul]

Mumbai police have detained Aiisca leaders and members … for what ? from when visiting Chaityabhoomi has become a crime?

Shame on Mumbai police and Casteist Maharashtra government .
Justice for Sahil Wakode. 🖇️✩₊˚🎧 ｡☾ .⋆

[Rahul sonpimple @Sonpimplerahul]

India has no democracy for Dalits.

Why is Mumbai Police detaining students and activists gathered at Chaityabhoomi to demand justice in IIT BOMBAY student Sahil Wakode's institutional murder case?

Can't Dalits seek justice under BJP govt?

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Stand-up comedian Masoom Rajwani and several others were detained by Mumbai Police for participating in a peaceful candlelight vigil in memory of Sahil Wakode, a Dalit student who died by suicide at IIT Bombay over alleged caste discrimination.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Mumbai: The Progressive Students Union (PSU) organised a candlelight march at Chaityabhoomi to demand justice in the case of the suicide of IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode.

Protesters participating in the march were taken into custody. A heavy police force was deployed in the area as a precautionary measure.

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

Unbelievable scenes from Mumbai, the 'pookie' police detaining Ambedkarites and anticaste allies from @AIISCA1957 candlelight vigil at Chaityabhumi

Semiotics of preventing Dalits from peacefully gathering at Chaityabhumi is massive. All this aggression for what? Shielding IIT?

Hope now atleast mainstream media stops it's shameful silence/complicity & covers this police aggression + also looks into the ongoing IIT inquiry team & it's composition background.

(still courtesy @Bhumikasara)

[Deepali_Salve @deepali_writes]

Threat culture in full force inside IITB campus led by CSO Ambuj Khare. When students ask for returning Babasaheb's statue (which DCP Nalawade stole and handed it over to IIT Admins) he refuses to give them back!

#JusticeForSahil

[Neha @neha_aisa]

In case it's not clear why this video is such a tragedy:

Fans don't cause student suicides.
Rotting systems do.

[Rahul sonpimple @Sonpimplerahul]

Let us come together to express our solidarity with their struggle, strengthen their voices, and stand firmly by their side in their fight for justice.

Date: 25 October 2026
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Chaityabhoomi, Mumbai

YOUR PRESENCE MATTERS!

Every candle represents hope, solidarity, and support for the struggle for justice. Let us gather in large numbers and send a powerful message of unity through our collective voice.

COME TOGETHER! SHOW SOLIDARITY! STAND WITH THE STRUGGLE!

Organised by: AIISCA @AIISCA1957

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

Violent crackdown on Ambedkarite & anticaste activists today at IIT Bombay is shocking.

50+ students have died on IIT campuses. A student's parents are on a hunger strike for justice against a prof who didnt follow establish protocol. Instead of working transparently & introspecting its casteist culture-- IIT Bombay & Police detained activists & protestors violently & hassled the parents.

When institutions become more important than students. When people dont ask what is structurally wrong & instead caste-shame a dead student & his grieving parents-- you know you are in a morally dead society. No high-fancy rhetoric can rebrand or rescue it.

Jai Bhim.

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Today marks a month since the IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode died by suicide. Ambedkarite organisations have been holding daily protests at Mumbai's Azad Maidan, demanding accountability for his "institutional murder." A delegation from the All India Independent Scheduled Castes Association arrived at the IIT Bombay gates around noon, seeking to pay respects to Sahil. They said a prayer and raised slogans before the police, who outnumbered them around two to one at the site, detained all of them.

The activists were soon released. Some of them returned to the campus and were detained again. Sahil's parents, as well as the Congress legislators Varsha Gaikwad and Aslam Sheikh, have been allowed inside the gates.

Video by Ajeet Mahale (@ajeet_dastan)

[Anurag Minus Verma @confusedvichar]

Urgent ‼️

[Deepali_Salve @deepali_writes]

Update!!
Mumbai police has detained Sahil Wakode’s parents, they brutally handled students. Women protestors were dragged, touched on private parts, and beaten by police. Calling lawyers and activist to assemble at Sakinaka PS