The letter that Rohith Vemula wrote to the VC a few days before death, asking for poison and rope to be given to Dalit students.
Anybody who needed proof of the fact that Vemula committed suicide not because of personal issues or simply because he was depressed but because of the University’s oppressive stance, should read this letter, before commenting. Here’s the full text of the letter that he wrote:
“18 December 2015
To,The Vice Chancellor
Subject: Solution for Dalit problem
Sir,First, let me praise your dedicated take on the Self-Respect movements of Dalits in HCU campus. When an ABVP president got questioned about his derogatory remarks on Dalits, your kind personal interference into the issue is historic and exemplary. 5 Dalit students are “socially boycotted” from campus spaces. Donald Trump will be a lilliput in front of you. By seeing your commitment, I am tempted to give two suggestions as a token of banality.1. Please serve 10mg Sodium Azide to all the Dalit students at the time of admission. With direction to use when they feel like reading Ambedkar.2.Supply a nice rope to the rooms of all Dalit students from your companion, the great Chief Warden.As we, the scholars, PhD students have already passed that stage and already members of Dalit Self-Respect movement unfortunately, we here are left with no easy exit, it seems.Hence, I request your highness to make preparations for the facility “EUTHANASIA” for students like me. And I wish you and the campus rest in peace forever.
Thanking You,
Yours sincerely
Vemula R Chakravarti
14SKPK01″
आखरी पैगाम साथी रोहित का | Full text of Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide letter in Hindi
