Organisations like Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle at IITs help marginalised students cope with systemic caste discrimination. They are the strongest pillar of support for students who are regularly harassed and even pushed into suicide.
Note recovered by SIT probing 1st year student's death last month 'names a batchmate'. Initially, 'poor academic performance' was cited as reason for Solanki's 'death by suicide'.
According to data presented in Parliament, IITs reported maximum number of student suicides among 3 institutes since 2018, others being NITs (24 such such deaths) & IIMS (4 such deaths).
IIT Bombay has strongly refuted charges of discrimination and is conducting an internal probe into the death of first-year Gujarati student Darshan Solanki.
UCBs accounted for 1.8% of total industry credit in September 2025—down from 2.2% five yrs ago—showing that they are losing ground to faster PSU banks.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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