Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar from Hyderabad Central University who took his own life on 17 January, wanted to write about the stars. In life, his education was an act of rebellion. In death, he blazed a trail on Dalit rights, whose brightness refuses to be ignored. By the media, by the bureaucracy, by the internet and by me. I was born in a Dalit family in Ajmer, Rajasthan. And I grew up learning to hide it.
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