The issue of caste within the country was exemplified most recently by the outrageous case of Darshan Solanki, a first-year IIT Bombay student who died by suicide with the institute denying any role of caste discrimination. Solanki’s sister has claimed that her brother had mentioned “caste-related issues faced by some students at IIT Bombay and that he had himself experienced.” …
In 2010, a senior Indian bureaucrat was quoted in the news as saying, “How can anyone seriously suggest that India’s fight against caste based discrimination will be helped by international attention on the issue?” The comment was meant to oppose Dalit activists’ demand for caste discrimination to be officially recognised by the United Nations. The most recent win on this …
San Jose, California, US – An association representing nearly half a million university students in California, United States has passed a resolution seeking a ban on caste-based discrimination faced mainly by the Dalit students, with rights groups calling the move “historic”. Last week, the Cal State Student Association, the country’s largest four-year public university system representing 23 campuses of the …
Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham has gone ahead and started its campus placement drive by inviting companies to conduct the recruitment process online. Our 2020 placement drive had multinational firms such as Microsoft and Cisco recruiting from Amrita Schools of Engineering across locations. Our 2020 online recruitment process saw a large number of leading start-up companies recruiting from Amrita’s Schools of Engineering. …